State Failure Collapse Reconstruction (Development and Change Special Issues) - Softcover

Milliken, Milliken

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1405105364 ISBN 13: 9781405105361

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2003

Synopsis

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.

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• 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.

About this title

About the Author

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).

From the Back Cover

State collapse in such places as Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yugoslavia has led to widespread human suffering, regional instability, and transnational threats of organised crime and international terrorism. This collection situates state failure and collapse against the backdrop of the emergence, consolidation, expansion, and erosion of the Western state system.

The contributors examine why and how states collapse through case studies of countries including Nigeria, Georgia, and Afghanistan, and through analyses of warlordism, conflict goods, and small arms and light weapons proliferation. Humanitarian and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in such places as East Timor, Cambodia, Somalia and Bosnia are also analysed and critiqued. The volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars working on state collapse, will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners.

The contributors examine why and how states collapse through case studies of countries including Nigeria, Georgia, and Afghanistan, and through analyses of warlordism, conflict goods, and small arms and light weapons proliferation. Humanitarian and post-conflict reconstruction efforts in such places as East Timor, Cambodia, Somalia and Bosnia are also analysed and critiqued. The volume, which brings together some of the foremost scholars working on state collapse, will be of interest to both scholars and practitioners.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405105364
• ISBN 13: 9781405105361
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336