State Failure Flashcards
stability of western bipolarity often means instability where?
- instability in central and eastern Europe
- Sub saharan Africa and parts of Asiad
Describe the gradual process of state decline
- weak states
- failing states
- failed states
- collapsed states
What does Robert Rotberg say about failed states?
- collapsed state = a rare and extreme version of a failed state which exhibits a vacuum of authority
- Deeply conflicted, dangerous and bitterly contested by warring factions in most of which battle armed troops fight revolts led by one or more rivals; roots lie in ethnic religious, or other intercommunal enmity
What does Erin Jenne say about state failure?
- it is limited to certain contested stretches of territory which central government does not control and to which it does not extend its provision of public goods
- e.g. Pakistan claims Kashmir (India controls)
How do Milliken and Krause see state failure?
- a failure to provide security and public order, legitimate representation and wealth or welfare
how do Milliken and Krause see state collapse?
- involves extreme disintegration of a public authority and metamorphosis of societies into a battlefield of all against all
exemplify 90s state failure
- Somalia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Liberia and Afghanistan
how does the DFID UK define state failure?
-“fragile states are those where the government cannot or will not deliver care functions to the majority of its people including the poor”
How does the world bank define fragile states?
- ‘characterised by debilitating combination of weak governance, policies and institutions’
for Chauvet, Collier and Hoeffler what are the distinctive factors behind a failed state (2)
- not maintaining a monopoly of organised violence
- providing a quality of public goods which is markedly worse than provided by other governments
why can you debate the ideas behind state failure
- is it more than simply a failure to provide certain outputs
