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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Weak state"”.
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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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Risky business: Moral arguments againts the Nuclear Waste Policy Act Amendments of 1987 Can consent be engineered?
… An unwilling population in a politically weak state has been forced to bear the burden from highly radioactive spent fuel from nuclear power reactors operating in the majority of states. The State of Nevada does not reap the benefits from nuclear power generation and does not operate a …
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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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The Eurasian Agenda: The International Relations of Kyrgyzstan
… Union and the emergence of the newly independent states in Central Asia are among the most important historical events of the 20<sup>th</sup> century. As one of these newly independent and sovereign state, Kyrgyzstan found itself in the sphere of the geopolitical rivalry among the Great Powers, …
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Democracy in Action: Decentralisation in Post-Conflict Cambodia
… post-conflict societies due to internal strife, weak state institutions, historical political transitions and lack of political legitimacy. Hence, this dissertation argues that decentralisation may make the consolidation of democracy in post-conflict society possible. If carefully implemented, …
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The strategy & politics of expansionism: United States foreign policy toward Cuba and the Philippines in 1898
… characteristics (democratic, pluralist, "weak" state), whether they have popular support or not. The findings also suggest that it is out of confidence and opportunity that expansionism occurs in these cases, rather than out of insecurity.
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Food and Shelter: Village Lives in India and China Compared
… this thesis argues for the importance of state capacity, and interest alignment, in driving forward development and preventing avoidable death or suffering. This provides a new angle on the dominant, Amartya Sen-inspired development models that emphasize free choice and democracy as the …
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Interpretable Knowledge Transfer in Communicative Neural-based Swarm-Guidance Agents
… agent's end. A retraining strategy, Priority on Weak State Areas (PoWSA), is introduced to help speed up the learning process in novel scenarios. Analyses of the proposed methodology in a swarm-guidance problem show higher training stability and chances of success in return for a slight increase …
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Public Private Partnership contracts in Mozambique and South Africa: managing risks and ensuring sustainability
… of PPPs are accentuated when compared with state borrowing. In addition, when it comes to risk management, all those risks that are supposedly transferred to a private operator are never truly transferred and, in the end, the government is always the residual risk holder should the PPP …
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Policy reform in weak states : the challenge of subsidy cuts in Latin America
… they depend on a functioning bureaucratic state apparatus for implementation. This article widens the lens of inquiry, theorizing that the presence of a Weberian bureaucracy creates the institutional preconditions that allow leaders latitude in designing and implementing politically optimal …
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Governance, marketplaces and social capital: the role of Batkhela bazaar in the evolving governance of the Malakand region of Pakistan
… key dimension of local governance in developing states. Yet to date, their role, and that of the social capital operating within them, in the evolution of formal and informal local governance structures has lacked systematic theoretical and empirical investigation. This is the case in the …
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Physical space and its role in the production and reproduction of violence in the "slum wars" in Medellin, Colombia (1970s-2013)
… of informality present challenges for formal (state) security actors to assert and maintain their Westphalian monopoly of violence. Conversely, informal settlements present advantages for non-state armed actors to deploy and exhort power and coercive force. This research here argues that, at …
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CRIMINALITA' ORGANIZZATA CALABRESE TRA PERIODO LIBERALE E FASCISMO NELLE PROVINCE DI REGGIO CALABRIA E CATANZARO.
… Post-unification Calabria, marked by poverty, weak state control, and the overlap between local political power and clientelistic interests, offered an ideal setting for the consolidation of these forms of organization. This thesis aims to contribute to the broader historical understanding of …
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The intelligence regime in South Africa (1994-2014) : an analytical perspective
… this that intelligence as a vital component in a state, could be misused by the political regime through less democratic practices that infringe on human rights and the rule of law. The quest of this study (which is not classified, to make the research findings available to both practitioners and …