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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Failed state"”.
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ICT, the Somali diaspora and the stabilization of a failed state
… the country has lacked an effective, centralized state apparatus. As a result, the term 'failed state’ is often applied to Somalia in popular discourse and by scholars. For a state to formally function as such, a few conditions must be met including the state’s ability to unquestionably …
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State Failure in Venezuela
<p>The role of the state is to provide political goods such as security and an environment conducive to economic growth. The Venezuelan state is failing to provide both security and conditions capable of producing economic growth. The government has exacerbated both by enacting failed policies. I …
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Instability in the South: The Implications of Mexican State Failure on U.S. National Security
… thesis analyzes the implications of Mexican state failure on United States national security. The growing instability in Mexico due to the actions of the various drug trafficking organizations (DTOs), government corruption, possible human rights abuses and Mexican insurgent groups is examined …
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Ghana: From fragility to resilience? Understanding the formation of a new political settlement from a critical political economy perspective
… 1970s Ghana was described as a collapsed and failed state. In contrast, today it is hailed internationally as beacon of democracy and stability in West Africa. In light of Ghana’s drastic image change from a fragile and even collapsed polity to a resilient state, this thesis contributes to the …
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Rethinking Nation-Building: A Christian Socio-Ethical and Theo-Political Task for Appropriating the Common Good
<p>nation-building as a coomon good</p>
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Foreign Intervention and the Process of State Failure Case Study on Libya
… relationship between foreign intervention and state failure. I argue that even an ideal international multilateral humanitarian intervention in a weak state will lead to deepening state failure if the intervention was biased and driven by material rather than ethical interests, focusing on …
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Adaptation Narratives: Climate Change and Environmental Politics in Mexican Costal Communities
… in coastal lagoon communities in the Mexican state of Tabasco, in the Gulf of Mexico. My analysis of the government’s climate change adaptation initiatives, scientists’ explanations, and fishers’ views on local environmental changes is based on political ecology approaches to environmental …
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There is no Afghanistan: the historic indeterminacy of Afghan sovereign identity
… considers how we conceptualize the meaning of state failure with reference to specific so-‐called failed states. The term implies certain prescriptions in an era of nation-‐building projects, and as such imposes certain identity aspects on any state labeled as failed. Yet the specific …
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Mezinárodní aktéři a koncept zhroucených států: případová studie Somálska
Tato diplomová práce pojednává o přístupech mezinárodních aktérů, zejména OSN, EU a USA, ke konceptu zhroucených států, které jsou ilustrovány na názorném příkladu této kategorie států, tj. Somálsku. Zhroucené státy považujeme za současnou bezpečnostní hrozbu, se kterou se mezinárodní společenství …
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Understanding philanthrocapitalism and its impact on private nature reserves: A case study of Gorongosa, Mozambique
… private nature reserves or taking over failed state-run nature reserves, elite donors are increasingly featuring neoliberal conservation and intervene in political ecology particularly in biodiversity hotspots in the global South. Notwithstanding philanthrocapitalism growing prominence …
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The external and internal educational factors that contribute to student achievement and self-perceptions of urban middle school Title I students
… the study was that many urban students that have failed derive from a hereditary line of academic failure. The students throughout the study that failed state tests and exhibited negative social and academic behaviors did not utilize the internal and external resources available within the school …
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Explaining Middle Power Military Intervention: Australia’s Use of Force in Maritime Southeast Asia and the South Pacific
… post-Cold War cases associated with Australia, a state that most closely resembles the middle power ideal. Those theories are: (1) Military Intervention as Threat Response, (2) Military Intervention as a Socialized Behavior, (3) Military Intervention as Greed, and (4) Military Intervention as the …
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The Use of Force by Non-State Actors on the High Seas: Public and Private Responses
… Somalia represented a potent combination of a failed State with a large, difficult-to-patrol and strategically vulnerable coastline. Shipowners began to engage the services of private maritime security companies (PMSCs) and their privately contracted armed security personnel (PCASP) to …
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The Security & Development Nexus
… necessitated the building of newly-democratized states while aiming to achieve security and promoting development. The difficulties that arise when helping to reconstruct states that have failed or those approaching a “failed state” status is that they are neither stable nor have a secure …