Troubled Regions and Failing States - The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict (Hardcover)

Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions addressed in this volume of "Comparative Social Research". Substantially, this special issue operates at the intersection of the larger debates on state failure and on regional (in-) security, relating to various perspectives within each of these. State failure, manifesting itself in the inability of a state to maintain its monopoly of violence, has become a widespread phenomenon in several regions of the world. While the weakness of the institutions of the state in question is an obvious dimension of state failure, there is also an important international dimension. In many of these cases, conflicts are interwoven and violence spills across borders.

General

Imprint:	Emerald Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Comparative Social Research
Release date:	July 2010
First published:	2010
Editors:	Kristian Berg Harpviken
Series editors:	Bernard Enjolras • Karl Henrik Sivesind
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-0-85724-101-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Peace studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social research & statistics > General
LSN:	0-85724-101-X
Barcode:	9780857241016

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