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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"; Weak states"”.
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Weak states, human rights violations, and the outbreak of civil war.
… of civil war have mainly emphasized state weakness as providing an opportunity for greed-based rebellions. Yet, this explanation leaves many questions open, as it cannot distinguish between weak states that do and those that do not experience civil war. In this paper, I argue that abuses of …
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Policing and the rule of law in weak states : evidence from Liberia
How can states with limited resources build citizens' trust in the police? How can they ensure the primacy of the police and courts over customary alternatives in peripheral regions long accustomed to autonomy? In urban areas plagued by high levels of crime and insecurity, how can they reduce …
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Policy reform in weak states : the challenge of subsidy cuts in Latin America
… after protests. My study shows that leaders in weak states have a narrower array of reform strategy choices available than their strong state counterparts. This finding propounds that the state is a crucial first mover in policy reform, casting doubt on the prospects of reforms that do not first …
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On death ground : why weak states resist great powers explaining coercion failure in asymmetric interstate conflict
… threatening or using limited force to convince weak states to comply with their demands. While coercive strategies have succeeded in just over half of asymmetric crises since World War I, there remain a number of cases in which weak states have chosen to resist. With their tremendous military …
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Border fixity : when good fences make bad neighbors
… conclusion is true as far as socio-politically weak states - states that do not possess a reasonable level of legitimate and effective governmental institutions - are involved. In a world in which it is illegitimate to change international borders by force, and in which socio-politically weak …
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Exploring the Impact of Neighborhood on State-Building in sub-Saharan Africa
… in the state-building trajectories of Africa's states? This dissertation endeavors to shed light on these questions by assessing the impact of one suspected cause of state-building variation: the way power is distributed among states and their neighbors. Specifically, this dissertation assesses …
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Institutions, State Capacity, and Intra-State Conflict: Evidence from a Decade-Long Civil War in Nepal
… armed civil conflicts predominantly occur in weak states, which are states that lack state capacity, it is unclear why not all weak states experience mass armed civil conflict. Second, political stability and highly unequal distribution of resources are opposing forces that are unlikely to …
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Exploitative friendships : manipulating asymmetric alliances
… international security alliances. When weak states ally with stronger states - i.e. states with significantly greater military capabilities - what explains differences in the junior party's approach to the alliance relationship? Why do some junior allies show their strong willingness to …
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Sub-state nationalism and social solidarity : essays on Spain and the United Kingdom
… sub-state nationalism is neither confined to weak states nor a thing of the past. In the first paper, I argue that the mobilization of sub-state identity in Spain influences preferences for what I term policy scope, the physical area in which a policy is intended to apply and be carried out, …
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Explaining Civil War Persistence in Afghanistan
… A central theme in civil war research is that `weak states? are especially prone to (prolonged) civil war; state-weakness seems to be the variable around which there is the most theoretical agreement. There is a strong sense that state failure ? whether defined as failure to monopolize …
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New Middle East Cold War: Saudi Arabia and Iran's Rivalry
… The 1979 Iranian Revolution catapulted these two states into an embittered rivalry. The fall of Saddam Hussein following the 2003 U.S. led invasion, the establishment of a Shi’ite Iraq and the 2011 Arab Uprisings have further inflamed tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Iran and Saudi Arabia …
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From model conflict resolution to post-war reconstruction in failed states: The case of Sierra Leone
The purpose of this study is to understand the causes of the Sierra Leonean conflict and to analyse the reconstruction programmes that followed it. Post-war reconstruction programmes must not be limited to the re-joining of families or reintegration of communities. It must also go a long way in …
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The Drivers of Conflict Management by the European Union: A Theoretical Analysis
… to manage foreign conflicts. The most powerful states tend to build stable hegemonic spheres of influence where they monopolise violence, establishing institutions that legitimize the deployment of military operations of conflict management. Higher levels of power concentration on the hands of …
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Securitization : the case of post-9/11 United States Africa policy
… the wake of AI Qaeda's attack against the United States on September 11, 2001, Africa has gained strategic significance due to the belief that its weak states are a danger to American national security. US Africa policy is now centered on the logic that weak African governments unable to provide …
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MAKING LEGIBILITY WORK: THE BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS OF STATE KNOWLEDGE
… as cash transfers, has intensified the need for states to produce systematic knowledge about the poor. Whether for exclusion or inclusion in welfare protection, states collect, standardize, and codify data to exert greater control for poverty relief interventions. These efforts depend on a …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… were ineffective. The restoration of order in weak states became the self-interest of the entire international community. Today, it is clear that the consequences of state failure are more expensive than the costs of an intervention. In order to understand the complexity of state failure and …