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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"State failure"”.
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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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International law and state failure - Somalia and Yugoslavia
… present study considers the treatment of failed States in international law. State failure represents a relatively recent phenomenon, which presents novel problems for the international community to deal with. For international law, the principles and experience of dealing with the creation, …
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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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The Toppler Effect : irregular leader transitions and the rate of state failure recovery
State failure is becoming increasingly prevalent across the globe, creating human suffering, black markets, lost economic opportunities, and safe havens for militant actors. It is imperative that the international community find a way to combat state failure. This study investigates the effects of …
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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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‘State failure’ and the extraterritorial use of force in self-defence against non-state actors
… examination of the notion and consequences of ‘state failure’ in international law. The disputes surrounding criteria for creation and recognition of states pertain to efforts to analyse legal and factual issues unravelling throughout the continuing existence of states, as best evidenced by the …
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State Failure' in provision of education and health services in Zimbabwe: Adjustments, adabtations and evolving coping stratergies of rural communities, 2000-2007.
… characterised as the "Zimbabwean crisis". The state became unable or unwilling to provide adequate education and health services to the majority of its citizens. The study sought to determine the nature and extent of the emerging coping strategies to a decline in the state service delivery. …
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa: Searching for a Social Contract
… thesis examines the phenomenon of civil war and state failure in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) from a social contract perspective. Its main hypothesis is that authoritarianism will lead to state failure in the context of SSA. In this regard, SSA states are political communities that have not done …
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The Rubik’s Cube of democratic development a normative model of statebuilding
… on the belief that each model and theory on state failure and statebuilding has useful elements which were incorporated in the alternative model proposed in the dissertation. Consequently, the real added value of the dissertation was the creation of the new theoretic schema which reorganized …
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Fixing the Failed: An Investigation of Terrorist Organizations and State Building Capabilities
… the role of terrorist organizations in failed states. In particular, their ability to perform positive state-building activities that result in stability is investigated. Both terrorism and state failure present unique and serious threats to international security. However, there is very little …
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State fragility and militia proliferation in Kenya a case study of policy inadequacy in the context of soft insecurity
… at service delivery in the context of failed states. The objective of this study is to investigate whether state failure in its provisioning capacity of basic services to its citizens has led to the proliferation of militia groups in Kenya. The study draws upon secondary sources of literature …
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Explaining Civil War Persistence in Afghanistan
… Put slightly differently, what is preventing the state/government from achieving outright victory, against the rebel organization/forces? 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 …
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A transient state maintenance requirements planning model
… The model is capable of capturing nonsteady-state failure behavior of populations of repairable items. Each item within the population is broken down into one or more families of components and subcomponents that can have different failure/repair characteristics. Probability of component …
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Failure strength and mechanism of composite laminates under multiaxial loading conditions
An experimental study of strength and failure behavior of orthotropic G-10 glass fiber reinforced composite laminates in an in-plane stress state has been conducted. Different types of biaxial specimens and associated test fixtures were developed and employed in the study. Standard IITRI specimens …
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Collusion, crime, and the death of downtown : a study of firm relocation in Johannesburg, South Africa
… the city. Exogenous factors like crime, state failure, and skewed property markets biased firms against the CBD as a viable location. Their predominance in the range of factors that affect firm behavior suggests that a focus on extra-firm institutions (rather than the firms themselves) …
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Understanding Boko Haram
… of religion, poverty and inequality, and failures of the Nigerian state. In doing so, this project demonstrates that no single factor, variable, or theory can be used independently. The full context -- religious, historical, political, and socioeconomic -- of the crisis must be examined in …
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Multi-objective optimisation of safety-critical hierarchical systems
… diagrams with restrictive assumptions, such as failure independence and limited 2-state failure modes, were used for evaluating the reliability of the candidate designs produced by the various algorithms.This thesis argues that a departure from this restrictive evaluation model is possible by …
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