Format: Paperback / softback
This book situates state failure and state collapse in historical context and explains the structures and forces that have led to state collapse in a number of countries around the world. It also analyses and critiques contemporary interventions and reconstruction efforts in collapsed states. Addresses the subject of state failure which has received high-profile attention from both scholars and policy-makers. Examines how and why states collapse. Analyses and critiques post-conflict reconstruction efforts. Has contemporary relevance for developments in places such as East Timor, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Georgia. Challenges our assumptions about states and the state system.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jennifer Milliken
EAN: 9781405105361
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 482 g
HEIGHT: 232 cm
PUBLISHED BY: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
DATE PUBLISHED: 2003-07-25
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GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
WIDTH: 157 cm
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Book Themes:
Development studies, Constitution: government and the state
Jennifer Milliken is Assistant Professor at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva. She is the author of The Social Construction of the Korean War: Conflict and its Possibilities (2001).