PDF Failed States: an Examination of Their Effects on Transnational
A thesis submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Global Security Studies. ... studies failed state theory is the lack of a consensus on a way to effectively define a failed state. As an example, Liana Wyler, in a 2008 CRS Report for Congress, notes that most ...
Conceptualizing the 'Failed State': The Construction of the Failed
This essay examines the failed state narrative by exploring how the state is theorized in the context of failed states, and how the narrative is plagued with neocolonial underpinnings, definitional ambiguity, western centrism and analytical reductionism. Keywords: failed states; narrative construction; policy approaches; Africa; discourse.
Is the Failed State Thesis Analytically Useful? The Case of Yemen
The failed state thesis has been a matter for discussion in the international relations academy for more than two decades. However, the soundness of this analytic framework has been questioned. This article critically engages this debate by examining the ability of the thesis to provide insight into the practice of statecraft in the case of Yemen.
The Failed-State Paradigm and Implications for Politics and Practices
failed states suffer many severe political, security, and socioeconomic challenges, the failed-state thesis has come up short in sufficiently elucidating the development of such obstacles. Furthermore, there is a lack of clarity and much disagreement, often governed by subjec-tive interpretations, in the academic and policy discourse over how to
Is the Failed State Thesis Analytically Useful? The Case of Yemen
The failed state thesis has been a matter for discussion in the international relations academy for more than two decades. Furthermore, its terminology has transcended the academy, entering public discourse. Thus, it is used widely by policymakers as a discursive and analytical tool to provide insight into cases of 'failed states'.
PDF State Failure, Sovereign Equality and Non- Intervention: Assessing
term "failed state" in 1992.24 The failed state thesis was a response to a perceived rise in the number of states, especially post-colonial African states, whose governments could not assert control over their territory.25 Initially, failed states were seen as a concern mainly for the domestic
Beyond the Other? A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis
8. The use of this term is not without risk, the most notable of which is the potential homogenisation of a diverse body of literature. Indeed, it is important to stress that the body of literature identified by this article as propounding the failed state thesis consists of works and analyses containing many important differences.
An illusion of the epoch: Critiquing the ideology of 'failed states
Namely, in conjoining an evolutionary telos with the norm of state boundaries, the thesis of 'failed states', particularly in its Hegelian rendition, is a revised version of modernisation theories - whether confronting putatively 'pre-modern' or 'anti-modern' forces (Mamdani, 2004). As such, the 'failed states' thesis ...
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project: the failed Iraqi nation
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project: the failed Iraqi nation-state thesis Ofra Bengio Kurdish Studies Program, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and A frican Studies, Tel A viv University, ... of a failed state. 2 This school of thought regards the United States as a neo-colonialist Power which replaced Great Britain. My ...
Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed State Thesis
The failed state thesis The term 'failed state thesis' is used here to refer to both a particular explanation about socio-political crisis and to the body of literature in which this Downloaded By: [King's College London] At: 07:31 16 June 2010 THE FAILED STATE THESIS 145 argument is made and developed.8 The term is adopted as the arguments ...
Conceptualizing the 'Failed State': The Construction of the Failed
The failed state narrative has inherent conceptual limitations and is based on flawed assumptions that obscure its utility. These so-‐called failed states are held against a Western-‐centric norm and a universalized spectrum of state development. The concept is now widely used in the context of global security, peacekeeping, poverty ...
Challenging the Failed State Thesis: IMF and World Bank Intervention
17. It must be noted, however, that not all negatively sovereign states are failed. Although attempts have been made by John A. A. Ayoade, 'States Without Citizens: An Emerging African Phenomenon', in Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan (eds) The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Boulder and London: Westview Press 1988) pp.100-118; Gros (note 13); Jackson Quasi-States (note ...
Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed State Thesis
Hill (2005) provides a broad post-colonial critique of the state failure notion, arguing that colonial and imperial discursive legacies interact with the notion of state failure to empower a ...
The Concept, Causes and Consequences of Failed States: A Critical
This article provides a critical review of recent literature that has attempted to define what a 'failed state' is and explains why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of 'failure' are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity across state functions within a polity. The focus on ranking states also distracts attention away from analyses concerning the ...
Conceptualizing the 'Failed State': The Construction of the Failed
The concept of the 'failed state' emerged in the 1990s to describe and explain why states residing outside the Western world do not function as advanced states. The failed state narrative has inherent conceptual limitations and is based on flawed assumptions that obscure its utility. These so-‐called failed states are held against a Western-‐centric norm and a universalized ...
Beyond the Other? A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis
A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis. This article challenges existing analyses of state failure and their casting of African societies in the role of deviant Other to those of Western Europe and North America. Drawing on insights derived from postcolonial studies, the article argues that the comparative approach to identifying so ...
PDF The dilemma of the failed state thesis in post-9/11 world affairs
The dilemma of the failed state thesis in post-9/11 world affairs . The 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the emphasis of failed states as just a regional humanitarian problem to one that could present a global security threat. In this regard US policymakers, especially, identified failed states as possible terrorist threats.
The dilemma of the failed state thesis in post-9/11 world affairs
The 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the emphasis of failed states as just a regional humanitarian problem to one that could present a global security threat. In this regard US policymakers, especially, identified failed states as possible terrorist threats. However, this renewed attention to the study of state failure has exposed a number of theoretical weaknesses in this body of literature ...
'State failure in theory and practice: the idea
the case of normative statements, however, the reverse applies. Here, a lack of fit between a statement and the world constitutes a reason for changing the world, not for revising the statement or theory. According to the second approach, a failed state is a state that is unable to control its territory and uphold its monopoly of violence.
'State failure' in theory and practice: the idea of the state and the
This article provides a critique of the discourse of 'failed states', and outlines an alternative approach. It is argued that by taking the model of the modern state for granted, and by analysing all states in terms of their degree of correspondence with or deviation from this ideal, this discourse does not help us understand the nature of the states in question, or the processes that lead ...
Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed State Thesis
title = "Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed State Thesis",
(PDF) Challenging the Failed State Thesis: IMF and World Bank
Challenging the Failed State Thesis: IMF and World Bank Intervention and the Algerian Civil War Downloaded By: [King's College London] At: 07:12 16 June 2010 J.N.C. HILL* King's College London With the onset of civil war in the early 1990s, Algeria appeared to join the growing list of failed African states. The idea of state failure has ...
Reflection on "Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed
Citizenship is an engendered notion that has different layers and faces towards different gender groups. In Iran, the state, nation, and civil society are highly masculine constructions, and ...
Is Ethiopia A Failed State?
These concrete signs and evidence substantiate the claim that Ethiopia is a failed state, even on the brink of collapse. Abiy'srise to power in 2017 has further exacerbated Ethiopia's descent into deep nationalism, dividing the nation along ethnic and regional fault lines. Over the past ten months, Ethiopia has been embroiled in a de facto ...
Domino theory
Domino theory presents a metaphor of falling dominoes: that a rise or fall in communist influence in a country will have the same knock-on effect in neighboring countries, and so on. The domino theory is a geopolitical theory which posits that changes in the political structure of one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino ...
Failed state
Failed state. A failed state is a political body, usually a state, that can no longer work as it should. There are different definitions, but in general at least one of the following is true: The state no longer has control over its territory, or it it does not have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. The ruling people are weak, and ...
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A thesis submitted to Johns Hopkins University in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Global Security Studies. ... studies failed state theory is the lack of a consensus on a way to effectively define a failed state. As an example, Liana Wyler, in a 2008 CRS Report for Congress, notes that most ...
This essay examines the failed state narrative by exploring how the state is theorized in the context of failed states, and how the narrative is plagued with neocolonial underpinnings, definitional ambiguity, western centrism and analytical reductionism. Keywords: failed states; narrative construction; policy approaches; Africa; discourse.
The failed state thesis has been a matter for discussion in the international relations academy for more than two decades. However, the soundness of this analytic framework has been questioned. This article critically engages this debate by examining the ability of the thesis to provide insight into the practice of statecraft in the case of Yemen.
failed states suffer many severe political, security, and socioeconomic challenges, the failed-state thesis has come up short in sufficiently elucidating the development of such obstacles. Furthermore, there is a lack of clarity and much disagreement, often governed by subjec-tive interpretations, in the academic and policy discourse over how to
The failed state thesis has been a matter for discussion in the international relations academy for more than two decades. Furthermore, its terminology has transcended the academy, entering public discourse. Thus, it is used widely by policymakers as a discursive and analytical tool to provide insight into cases of 'failed states'.
term "failed state" in 1992.24 The failed state thesis was a response to a perceived rise in the number of states, especially post-colonial African states, whose governments could not assert control over their territory.25 Initially, failed states were seen as a concern mainly for the domestic
8. The use of this term is not without risk, the most notable of which is the potential homogenisation of a diverse body of literature. Indeed, it is important to stress that the body of literature identified by this article as propounding the failed state thesis consists of works and analyses containing many important differences.
Namely, in conjoining an evolutionary telos with the norm of state boundaries, the thesis of 'failed states', particularly in its Hegelian rendition, is a revised version of modernisation theories - whether confronting putatively 'pre-modern' or 'anti-modern' forces (Mamdani, 2004). As such, the 'failed states' thesis ...
Contextualizing the Kurdish national project: the failed Iraqi nation-state thesis Ofra Bengio Kurdish Studies Program, The Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and A frican Studies, Tel A viv University, ... of a failed state. 2 This school of thought regards the United States as a neo-colonialist Power which replaced Great Britain. My ...
The failed state thesis The term 'failed state thesis' is used here to refer to both a particular explanation about socio-political crisis and to the body of literature in which this Downloaded By: [King's College London] At: 07:31 16 June 2010 THE FAILED STATE THESIS 145 argument is made and developed.8 The term is adopted as the arguments ...
The failed state narrative has inherent conceptual limitations and is based on flawed assumptions that obscure its utility. These so-‐called failed states are held against a Western-‐centric norm and a universalized spectrum of state development. The concept is now widely used in the context of global security, peacekeeping, poverty ...
17. It must be noted, however, that not all negatively sovereign states are failed. Although attempts have been made by John A. A. Ayoade, 'States Without Citizens: An Emerging African Phenomenon', in Donald Rothchild and Naomi Chazan (eds) The Precarious Balance: State and Society in Africa (Boulder and London: Westview Press 1988) pp.100-118; Gros (note 13); Jackson Quasi-States (note ...
Hill (2005) provides a broad post-colonial critique of the state failure notion, arguing that colonial and imperial discursive legacies interact with the notion of state failure to empower a ...
This article provides a critical review of recent literature that has attempted to define what a 'failed state' is and explains why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of 'failure' are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity across state functions within a polity. The focus on ranking states also distracts attention away from analyses concerning the ...
The concept of the 'failed state' emerged in the 1990s to describe and explain why states residing outside the Western world do not function as advanced states. The failed state narrative has inherent conceptual limitations and is based on flawed assumptions that obscure its utility. These so-‐called failed states are held against a Western-‐centric norm and a universalized ...
A postcolonial critique of the failed state thesis. This article challenges existing analyses of state failure and their casting of African societies in the role of deviant Other to those of Western Europe and North America. Drawing on insights derived from postcolonial studies, the article argues that the comparative approach to identifying so ...
The dilemma of the failed state thesis in post-9/11 world affairs . The 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the emphasis of failed states as just a regional humanitarian problem to one that could present a global security threat. In this regard US policymakers, especially, identified failed states as possible terrorist threats.
The 9/11 terrorist attacks shifted the emphasis of failed states as just a regional humanitarian problem to one that could present a global security threat. In this regard US policymakers, especially, identified failed states as possible terrorist threats. However, this renewed attention to the study of state failure has exposed a number of theoretical weaknesses in this body of literature ...
the case of normative statements, however, the reverse applies. Here, a lack of fit between a statement and the world constitutes a reason for changing the world, not for revising the statement or theory. According to the second approach, a failed state is a state that is unable to control its territory and uphold its monopoly of violence.
This article provides a critique of the discourse of 'failed states', and outlines an alternative approach. It is argued that by taking the model of the modern state for granted, and by analysing all states in terms of their degree of correspondence with or deviation from this ideal, this discourse does not help us understand the nature of the states in question, or the processes that lead ...
title = "Beyond the Other? A Postcolonial Critique of the Failed State Thesis",
Challenging the Failed State Thesis: IMF and World Bank Intervention and the Algerian Civil War Downloaded By: [King's College London] At: 07:12 16 June 2010 J.N.C. HILL* King's College London With the onset of civil war in the early 1990s, Algeria appeared to join the growing list of failed African states. The idea of state failure has ...
Citizenship is an engendered notion that has different layers and faces towards different gender groups. In Iran, the state, nation, and civil society are highly masculine constructions, and ...
These concrete signs and evidence substantiate the claim that Ethiopia is a failed state, even on the brink of collapse. Abiy'srise to power in 2017 has further exacerbated Ethiopia's descent into deep nationalism, dividing the nation along ethnic and regional fault lines. Over the past ten months, Ethiopia has been embroiled in a de facto ...
Domino theory presents a metaphor of falling dominoes: that a rise or fall in communist influence in a country will have the same knock-on effect in neighboring countries, and so on. The domino theory is a geopolitical theory which posits that changes in the political structure of one country tend to spread to neighboring countries in a domino ...
Failed state. A failed state is a political body, usually a state, that can no longer work as it should. There are different definitions, but in general at least one of the following is true: The state no longer has control over its territory, or it it does not have a monopoly on the legitimate use of force. The ruling people are weak, and ...