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Failing States or Failing Models?: Accounting for the Incidence of State Collapse

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  • Martin Doornbos

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In recent years the notion and phenomenon of .failingÿ states - states deemed incapable to fulfil the basic tasks of providing security for their populace -, has been rapidly drawing attention. I will start off with a closer look at the inci- dence of fragile states and state failure, more specifically of state collapse. Connected with this, I will raise the question of differential degrees of propensity to failure and collapse among contemporary state systems, and to point to apparent regional variations in this regard. Yet, to better understand and respond to sit- uations of state collapse, I shall argue, it will be important to differentiate between different trajectories put into motion after the lifting of hegemon- ic frameworks

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  • Martin Doornbos, 2010. "Failing States or Failing Models?: Accounting for the Incidence of State Collapse," The Other Canon Foundation and Tallinn University of Technology Working Papers in Technology Governance and Economic Dynamics 27, TUT Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance.
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