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apply to a country where absolutely no basic functions of the state were working, and non-state actors were carrying out such tasks. A "weak state" could be used for states whereby informal institutions carry out more of the public services and channeling of goods than formal state institutions. A "war-torn" state might not be functioning because of conflict, but this does not necessarily imply it is a collapsed state. Rotberg argued that all failed states are experiencing some form of armed conflict. However, the challenges to the state can be very different depending on the type of armed conflict, and whether it encompasses the country as a whole and large territories, or is specifically focused around one regional area. Another type of state that has been traditionally put under the umbrella term "failed state" could be an "authoritarian state". While authoritarian leaders might come to power by violent means, they may ward off opposition once in power and as such ensure there is little violence within their regime. Call argues that the circumstances and challenges facing state-building in such regimes are very different from those posed in a state in civil war. These four alternative definitions highlight the many different circumstances that can lead a state to be categorized under the umbrella term of "failed state", and the danger of adopting prescriptive one-size-fits-all policy approaches to very different situations. As a result of these taxonomical difficulties, Wynand Greffrath has posited a nuanced approach to "state dysfunction" as a form of political decay, which emphasizes qualitative theoretical analysis.
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Weinstein's key arguments is that war leads to peace. By this, he means that peace agreements imposed by the international community tend to freeze in place power disparities that do not reflect reality. Weinstein believes that such a situation leaves a state ripe for future war, while if the war were allowed to play out for one side to win decisively, the future war would be much less likely. Weinstein also claims that war leads to the development of strong state institutions. Weinstein borrows from Charles Tilly to make this argument, which states that wars require large expansions in state capabilities, so the states that are more stable and capable will win wars and survive in the international system through a process similar to natural selection. Weinstein uses evidence from Uganda's successful recovery following a guerilla victory in a civil war, Eritrea's forceful secession from Ethiopia, and development in Somaliland and Puntland—autonomous regions of Somalia—to support his claims. Weinstein does note that lack of external intervention can lead to mass killings and other atrocities, but he emphasizes that preventing mass killings has to be weighed against the ensuing loss of long-term
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argues that the label of "failed state" has been applied so widely that it has been effectively rendered useless. As there has been little consensus over how to define failed states, the characteristics commonly used to identify a failing state are numerous and extremely diverse, from human rights violations, poverty, corruption to demographic pressures. This means that a wide range of highly divergent states are categorized together as failed (or failing) states. This can conceal the complexity of the specific weaknesses identified within individual states and result in one size fits all approach typically focused on strengthening the state's capacity for order. Furthermore, the use of the term 'failed state' has been used by some foreign powers as a justification for invading a country or determining a specific prescriptive set of foreign policy goals. Following 2001, Call notes that the US stated that failed states were one of the greatest security threats facing the country, based on the assumption that a country with weak – or non-existent – state institutions would provide a safe haven for terrorists, and act as a breeding ground for extremism.
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conditions within this type of states". Focusing on individual citizens' decision-making patterns, it is suggested that "individuals living in failed states are attracted to political violence because the system is broken—the state has failed in its duty". This finding is based on empirical evidence using barometer survey data. This individual-level approach, which differs from previous research which has focused on the attractiveness of failed states for terrorists and insurgents finds that "failed states threaten an individual's survival, which ultimately drives them to obtain tangible political and economic resources through other means, which include the use of political violence". This finding has significant implications for the international community, such as the fact that "this pattern of deprivation makes individuals in these states more susceptible to the influence of internationally sponsored terrorist groups. As a consequence, failed states are breeding grounds for terrorists, who then export their radical ideologies to other parts of the world to create terrorist threats across the globe".
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his previous criticism of the state failure concept as overly generalized. Call thus asserts that it is often inappropriately applied as a catch-all theory to explain the plight of states that are in fact subject to diverse national contexts and do not possess identical problems. Utilizing such an evaluation to support policy prescriptions, Call posits, is then responsible for poor policy formulation and outcomes. As such, Call's proposed framework develops the concept of state failure through the codification of three "gaps" in resource provision that the state is not able to address when it is in the process of failure: capacity, when state institutions lack the ability to effectively deliver basic goods and services to its population; security, when the state is unable to provide security to its population under the threat of armed groups; and legitimacy when a "significant portion of its political elites and society reject the rules regulating power and the accumulation and distribution of wealth."
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that developed nations and their aid institutions have had a positive impact on many failed states. Nation-building is context-specific and thus a countries' cultural-political, as well as social environment, needs to be carefully analyzed before intervening as a foreign state. The Western world has increasingly become concerned about failed states and sees them as threats to security. The concept of the failed state is thereafter often used to defend policy interventions by the West. Further, as Chesterman and Ignatieff et al. argue, regarding the duration of international action by developed states and international organizations, a central problem is that a crisis tends to be focused on time, while the most essential work of reframing and building up a state and its institutions takes years or decades. Therefore, effective state-building is a slow process and it is disingenuous to suggest otherwise to the domestic public.
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downside of this is that it can be captured by recipient governments and diverted either towards self-enrichment of incumbent elites or to establish and maintain clientelist networks to allow them to remain in power—for example, in Kenya, aid allocation is biased towards constituencies with high vote shares for the incumbent, so the geographic distribution of aid changes to their supporters following a change of regime. Furthermore, aid can also be diverted to non-state actors, and thus undermine the state's monopoly on violence, such as in Colombia during the 1990s and 2000s, where US aid to the Colombian military was diverted by the military to paramilitary groups, leading to significant increases in paramilitary violence in municipalities located near military bases. The implication is that foreign aid can undermine the state by both feeding corruption of incumbent elites, and empowering groups outside of the state.
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Delta region of Nigeria — Bøås and Jennings argue that "the use of the 'failed state' label is inherently political and based primarily on Western perceptions of Western security and interests". They go on to suggest that Western policy-makers attribute the 'failed' label to those states in which 'recession and informalisation of the state is perceived to be a threat to Western interests'. Furthermore, this suggests hypocrisy among Western policy-makers: the same forms of perceived dysfunction that lead to some states being labeled as failed are in turn met with apathy or are knowingly expedited in other states where such dysfunction is assessed to be beneficial to Western interests. In fact, "this feature of state functioning is not only accepted, but also to a certain degree facilitated, as it creates an enabling environment for business and international capital. These cases are not branded 'failed states
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often also considered human aspects for development. Secondly, it parallels the fragility or vulnerability of states with underdevelopment. This comparison firstly assumes that underdevelopment (economic) creates vulnerability, thus assuming that if a state is "developed" it is stable or sustainable. Thirdly, it measures the failure (or success) of a state without including the progress of other areas outside the sphere of the 12 indicators, thus excluding important measures of development such as the decline in child mortality rates, and increased access to clean water sources and medication, amongst others. Nonetheless, when discussing failed states it is important to mention the FSI not just for its use by governments, organizations, educators and analysts, but also because it provides a measure of assessment that tries to address the issues that cause threats, both domestically and internationally.
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countries, once the effects of other country-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account". In fact, as the argument goes, "political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes". While poverty and low levels of political freedom are not the main characteristics of failed states, they are nevertheless important ones. For this reason, Abadie's research represents a powerful critique to the idea that there is a link between state failure and terrorism. This link is also questioned by other scholars, such as Corinne Graff, who argues that 'there is simply no robust empirical relationship between poverty and terrorist attacks'.
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there has been a civil war and a rebel force has ultimately triumphed, then the vacuum may be filled by the rebellious army and political movement as it establishes control over the state. Second, there may be a patchwork of warlords and armies, with either no real central state (as in Somalia) or only a very weak one. In this situation, the conflict does not really end, but may wax and wane in a decentralized fashion, as in Afghanistan today. The third possibility is that an international actor or coalition of actors steps in to constitute temporary authority politically and militarily. This may be an individual country, a coalition, an individual country under the thin veneer of a coalition, or the United Nations acting through the formal architecture of a UN post-conflict mission.
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able to weaken or remove the organization, the sanctuary is referred to as a "Terrorist Black Hole". However, next to governmental weakness there needs to be "Terrorist Comparative Advantages" present for a region to be considered as a "Terrorist Black Hole". According to the study, social tensions, the legacy from civil conflict, geography, corruption and policy failure, as well as external factors contribute to governmental weakness. The comparative advantages are religion and ethnicity, the legacy from civil conflict, geography, economic opportunities, economic underdevelopment, and regional stimuli. Only the combinations of the two factors (governmental weakness and Terrorist Comparative Advantages) explain what regions terrorists use as sanctuaries.
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is only one aspect of development; another key dimension of development is the expansion of the administrative capability of the state, the capability of governments to affect the course of events by implementing policies and programs. Capability traps close the space for novelty, establishing fixed best-practice agendas as the basis of evaluating failed states. Local agents are therefore excluded from the process of building their own states, implicitly undermining the value-creating ideas of local leaders and front-line workers.
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states. The first type is directed towards functioning states; all core functions of the state are functioning in the long term. In weak states, the monopoly of force is still intact, but the other two areas show serious deficits. Failing states lack the monopoly of force, while the other areas function at least partially. Finally, collapsed or failed states are dominated by parastatal structures characterized by actors trying to create a certain internal order, but the state cannot sufficiently serve the three core elements.
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challenges of the three gaps should be identified as failed states but instead presents the framework as an alternative to the state failure concept as a whole. Although Call recognizes that the gap concept in itself has limits since often states face two or more of the gap challenges, his conceptual proposition presents a useful way for more precisely identifying the challenges within a society and the policy prescriptions that are more likely to be effective for external and international actors to implement.
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operation would also help solve the coordination problem. The empowerment of a UN body to investigate human rights abuses would solve the accountability problem. Finally, forcing the failed state to contribute funds to peacekeeping operations after several years can reduce the incentives of the peacekeepers to exit. Fearon and Laitin believe that multilateral interventions which solve the above four collective action problems will be more effective at rebuilding failed states through neotrusteeship.
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create what they call an "aid-institutions paradox". This paradox is formed because of the large cash contributions that Western countries have given to African countries have created institutions that are "less accountable to their citizens and under less pressure to maintain popular legitimacy." They mention that the gradual decrease of aid may help foster long-lasting institutions, which is proven by the United States' efforts in Korea after the Cold War.
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whether all the stages have to be taken continuously or if a state can skip one phase. Schneckener stresses that his model should actually not be interpreted as a stage model as, in his opinion, states do not necessarily undergo every stage. Robert I. Rotberg's model underlies an ordinal logic and thus, implies that the state failure process is a chronological chain of phases.
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A relevant contribution to the field of failed states and its attributes was made by Jack Goldstone in his 2008 paper "Pathways to State Failure". He defines a failed state as one that has lost both its effectiveness and legitimacy. Effectiveness means the capability to carry out state functions such
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The link between state failure (and its characteristics) and terrorism, however, is not unanimously accepted in the scholarly literature. Research by Alberto Abadie, which looks at determinants of terrorism at the country level, suggests that the "terrorist risk is not significantly higher for poorer
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Contributing to previous research on the matter, Tiffiany Howard looks at a different dimension of the connection between state failure and terrorism, based on evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa. She argues that "citizens of failed states are attracted to political violence because of the deteriorating
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Jeremy Weinstein disagrees that peacekeeping is necessary to rebuild failed states, arguing that it is often better to allow failed states to recover on their own. Weinstein fears that international intervention may prevent a state from developing strong internal institutions and capabilities. One of
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Berman, Eli, Felter, Shapiro, and Trolan (2013) also found similar evidence to support the paradox, stating that large US aid attempts in African agriculture have only resulted in further conflict between citizens. Notably, small investments such as grants for schools have proven to decrease violence
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The indicators each count for 10, adding up to a total of 120. However, in order to add up to 120, the indicator scores are rounded up-or-down to the nearest one decimal place. In the 2015 Index, South Sudan ranked number one, Somalia number two, and the Central African Republic number three. Finland
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Charles T. Call attempts to abandon the concept of state failure altogether, arguing that it promotes an unclear understanding of what state failure means. Instead, Call advances a "gap framework" as an alternative means of assessing the effectiveness of state administration. This framework builds on
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States rated highly in terms of state failures, irrespective of the type of state failure experienced, are more likely to be targeted by terrorist attacks, more likely to have their nationals commit terrorist attacks in third countries, and are more likely to host active terrorist groups that commit
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Call suggests that, instead of branding countries as failed states, they could be categorized in more relevant, understandable terms. For example, a "collapsed state" would refer to a country where the state apparatus completely falls apart and ceases to exist for a couple of months. This would only
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Capability trap means that countries are progressing at a very slow pace in the expansion of state capability even in the contemporary world, which is also the core problem of failed states. Many countries remain stuck in conditions of low productivity that many call "poverty traps". Economic growth
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Foreign aid produces several unintended consequences when used to develop the institutional capacity of state. Donors will often delegate aid spending to recipient governments since they do not have the information or capacity to identify who is in the greatest need and how it can be best spent. The
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Further critique of the ways in which the 'failed state' concept has been understood and used to inform national and international policy decisions is brought forth in research by Morten Bøås and Kathleen M. Jennings. Drawing on five case studies — Afghanistan, Somalia, Liberia, Sudan, and the Niger
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employ assessments of the democratic character of a state's institutions as a means of determining its degree of failure. Finally, other scholars focus their argument on the legitimacy of the state, on the nature of the state, on the growth of criminal violence in a state, on the economic extractive
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The post-conflict states that are emerging from external or civil war. A number of these countries, such as Nigeria, Mozambique, Sierra Leone, and Somalia, have been in Africa, while others have been in Latin America (Nicaragua, El Salvador, and much of Central America), in Asia (e.g. Cambodia), or
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Larry Diamond, in his 2006 paper "Promoting democracy in post-conflict and failed states", argues that weak and failed states pose distinctive problems for democracy promotion. In these states, the challenge is not only to pressure authoritarian state leaders to surrender power but rather to figure
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on the same continent as failed states make eventual resettlement after the war, famine, or political collapse even less probable, as the distance, cost, and inconvenience of returning to home countries increase with distance and language change among refugee families. In Somalia, Afghanistan, and
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Moss, Todd, Gunilla Pettersson, and Nicolas Van de Walle (2006) acknowledged the controversy over the effect of foreign aid that has developed in recent years. They argued that although there is a call for an increase in large aid efforts in Africa by the international community, this will actually
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Pritchett, Woolcock, and Andrews (2013) analyzed the systematic failure of the development of failed states. They defined "state administrative capability for implementation" as the key aspect of state development, and found out the mechanism in which failed states stumbled regardless of decades of
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Both research approaches show some irregularities. While the quantitative approach lacks transparency concerning its indicators and their balancing in the evaluation process of countries, the qualitative approach shows a diversity of different foci. One of the major discrepancies is the question of
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Olivier Nay, William Easterly, and Laura Freschi have critiqued the concept of state failure as not having a coherent definition, with indices combining various indicators of state performance arbitrarily weighted to arrive at unclear and aggregated measurements of state fragility. Charles T. Call
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as providing security or levying taxes. Legitimacy means the support of important groups of the population. A state that retains one of these two aspects is not failed as such; however, it is in great danger of failing soon if nothing is done. He identifies five possible pathways to state failure:
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create an unholy confluence that is uniquely challenging. When a criminal operates outside the territory of an offended state, the offended state might ordinarily appeal to the state from which the criminal is operating to take some sort of action, such as to prosecute the offender domestically or
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A study of the Cligendael Center for Strategic Studies explains why states that are subject to failure serve as sanctuaries (used to plan, execute, support, and finance activities) for terrorist organizations. When the government does not know about the presence of the organization or if it is not
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Furthermore, Binyavanga Wainaina (2009) likens Western aid to colonization, in which countries believe that large cash contributions to spur the African economy will lead to political development and less violence. In reality, these cash contributions do not invest in Africa's growth economically,
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the legitimization to impose the western idea of a stable nation-state. It is commonly accepted that nation-building or international response to troubled/rogue states happens too late or too quickly which is due to inadequate analysis or lack of political will. Still, it is important to highlight
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While the FSI is used in many pieces of research and makes the categorization of states more pragmatic, it often receives much criticism due to several reasons. Firstly, it does not include the Human Development Index to reach the final score but instead focuses on institutions to measure what are
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Steward and Knaus (2012) tackled the question "Can intervention work?" and concluded that "we can help nations build themselves" by putting an end to war and providing "well-resourced humanitarian interventions". They criticized the overconfidence of policymakers on nation-building by contrasting
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Similarly, Herbst (1990) added that a war might be the only chance to strengthen an extraction capability since it forced rulers to risk their political lives for extra revenue and forced subjects to consent to pay more tax. It is also important for state development in that the increased revenue
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logic and thus, shows the relevance of the monopoly of violence in comparison to the other two while at the same time acting as the precondition for a functioning state. His four statehood types are: (1) consolidated and consolidating states, (2) weak states, (3) failing, and (4) collapsed/failed
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Generally speaking, the order is the most important prerequisite for democracy promotion, which relies heavily on formal democratic mechanisms, particularly elections to promote post-conflict state-building. In the absence of an effective state, there are basically three possibilities. First, if
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Research by James Piazza of the Pennsylvania State University finds evidence that nations affected by state failure experience and produce more terrorist attacks. Contemporary transnational crimes "take advantage of globalization, trade liberalization and exploding new technologies to perpetrate
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Trial Attorney Dan E. Stigall, "the international community is confronted with an increasing level of transnational crime in which criminal conduct in one country has an impact in another or even several others. Drug trafficking, human trafficking, computer crimes, terrorism, and a host of other
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Fearon and Laitin do propose some solutions to these problems. To solve the recruitment problem, they argue for having a powerful state with security interests in the failed state to take the lead in the peacekeeping operations and serve a point role. Having a single state lead the peacekeeping
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James Fearon and David Laitin suggest in "Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States" that the problem of failed states can be addressed through a system of "neotrusteeship", which they compare to "postmodern imperialism". Fearon and Laitin's idea of neotrusteeship involves a combination of
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Instead of attempting to quantify the degree of failure of a state, the gap framework provides a three-dimensional scope useful to analyze the interplay between the government and the society in states in a more analytical way. Call does not necessarily suggest that states that suffer from the
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The FSI total score is out of 120, and in 2015 there were 178 states making the ranking. Initially, the FSI only ranked 75 countries in 2005. The FSI uses two criteria by which a country qualifies to be included in the list: first of all, the country must be a United Nations member state, and
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The term "failed state" has faced criticism along two main strands. The first argues that the term lends itself to overgeneralization, by lumping together different governance problems amongst diverse countries, and without accounting for variations of governance within states. The second is
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Typically, the term means that the state has been rendered ineffective and is not able to enforce its laws uniformly or provide basic goods and services to its citizens. The conclusion that a state is failing or has failed can be drawn from the observation of a variety of characteristics and
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In light of the fact that many of these countries would likely need centuries to reach the state capability of developed countries, they suggested creating "context-specific institutions", promoting "incremental reform process", and setting "realistic expectations" for attaining the goal of
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Matt, Lant, and Woolcock from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government proposed an approach called the "Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA)", to escape the capability traps. Given that many development initiatives fail to improve performance because they promote
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institutions, or on the states' capacity to control its territory. Robert H. Bates refers to state failure as the "implosion of the state", where the state transforms "into an instrument of predation" and the state effectively loses its monopoly on the means of force.
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extradite the offender so that he or she may face punishment in the offended state. Nonetheless, in situations in which a government is unable (or unwilling) to cooperate in the arrest or prosecution of a criminal, the offended state has few options for recourse".
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The qualitative approach embraces theoretical frameworks. Normally, this type of measurement applies stage models to allow the categorization of states. In three to five stages, researchers show state failure as a process. Notable researchers, inter alia, are
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Quantitative measurement of state failure means the creation of indexes and rankings are particularly important. However, a number of other indexes are generally used to describe state weakness, often focusing on the developmental level of the state (e.g. the
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Various metrics have been developed to describe the level of governance of states, with significant variation among authorities regarding the specific level of government control needed to consider a state as failed. In 2023, the
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secondly, there must be a significant sample size of content and data available for that country to allow for meaningful analysis. There are three groupings: social, economic, and political with overall of twelve indicators.
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out how to regenerate legitimate power in the first place. There are mainly two distinct types of cases, and each of these two types of cases requires specific kinds of strategies for the promotion of good governance:
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that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders. Common characteristics of a failed state include a government incapable of
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No consistent or quantitative definition of a "failed state" exists; the subjective nature of the indicators that are used to infer state failure have led to an ambiguous understanding of the term.
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crimes can involve actors operating outside the borders of a country which might have a significant interest in stemming the activity in question and prosecuting the perpetrator".
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Protection—rulers bring about benefit to their clients by eliminating their external rivals and guaranteeing their rights (requires building courts and representative assemblies)
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has repeatedly ranked Somalia at the top spot, attributing it to "widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, terrorism, insurgency, crime, abysmal development, and piracy."
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development practices tried, billions of dollars spent, and alleged "progress" boasted. These countries adopted the following techniques which led to undermining it:
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Some scholars focus on the capacity and effectiveness of the government to determine whether or not a state is failed. Other indices such as the Fund for Peace's
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concerned with the political application of the term in order to justify military interventions and state-building based on a Western model of the state.
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Schneckener, Ulrich (2004). "States at Risk – zur Analyse fragiler Staatlichkeit. Welcome back – Staatszerfall als Problem der internationalen Politik".
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While failed states are the source of numerous refugees, the chaotic emigration allowed by UN regulations and open border policies have contributed to
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international and domestic organizations which seek to rebuild states. Fearon and Laitin start with the assumption that failed states comprise a
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states lacked external threats and had not waged interstate wars, implying that these states are unlikely to take similar steps in the future.
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State-making—rulers eliminate internal rivals and establish control over their territories (requires building police forces and bureaucracies)
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Countries that are in the midst of civil war or ongoing violent conflict, where central state authority has largely collapsed, as in the
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diverse crimes and to move money, goods, services and people instantaneously for purposes of perpetrating violence for political ends".
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However, the Fragile States Index has received comparatively much attention since its first publication in 2005. Edited by the magazine
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would not return to its original level even after the end of wars. Contrary to European states, however, he also pointed out that most
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assurance, territorial control, political or civil office staffing, and infrastructure maintenance. When this happens, widespread
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Gros, J.-G. (1996). "Towards a taxonomy of failed states in the New World Order: Decaying Somalia, Liberia, Rwanda and Haiti".
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Yemen the reform movements and modernization efforts are weakened when there are no effective refugee resettlement programs.
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Bøås, Morten; Jennings, Kathleen M. (December 2007). "'Failed States' and 'State Failure': Threats or Opportunities?".
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Extraction—rulers extract more tax from their subjects (requires building tax collection apparatuses and exchequers)
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Piazza, James A. (2008). "Incubators of Terror: Do Failed and Failing States Promote Transnational Terrorism?".
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The measurement methods of state failure are generally divided into the quantitative and qualitative approach.
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Accountability - ensuring that any peacekeeping countries that commit human rights abuses are held responsible
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combinations thereof. Examples of such characteristics include - but are not limited to - the presence of an
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Fearon and Laitin identify four main problems to achieving collective action to intervene in failed states:
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Patrick, Stewart (2007). "'Failed' States and Global Security: Empirical Questions and Policy Dilemmas".
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Rice, S.E.; Graff, C.; Pascual, C. (2010). "Poverty, Development and Violent Extremism in Weak States".
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State predation (corrupt or crony corralling of resources at the expense of other groups). Examples:
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compared to large investments, which create "incentives to capture economic rents through violence."
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Bøås, M.; Jennings, K. M. (2007). "'Failed states' and 'state failure': Threats or opportunities?".
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Patrick, S. (2007). "'Failed' States and Global Security: Empirical Questions and Policy Dilemmas".
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Strong societies and weak states: state-society relations and state capabilities in the Third World
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Howard, Tiffiany (2010-10-19). "Failed States and the Spread of Terrorism in Sub-Saharan Africa".
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An aid-institutions paradox? A review essay on dependency and state-building in sub-Saharan Africa
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Tilly summarized this linkage in the famous phrase: "War made the state, and the state made war."
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Nay, Olivier (2013). "Fragile and Failed States: Critical Perspectives on Conceptual Hybrids".
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Terrorist Black Holes: A study into terrorist sanctuaries and governmental weakness. (2nd ed.)
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War-making—rulers eliminate external rivals (requires building military forces and supportive
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Fearon, James D.; Laitin, David D. (2004). "Neotrusteeship and the Problem of Weak States".
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Clausen, Maria-Louise (2019). "Justifying military intervention: Yemen as a failed state".
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Originating in the 1990s, the term was initially applied to characterize the situation in
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Nay Olivier. "Fragile and Failed States: Critical Perspectives on Conceptual Hybrids",
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Coordination - providing good communication between all of the peacekeeping countries
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Call, C. T. (2011). "Beyond the 'failed state': Toward conceptual alternatives".
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within its borders. When this is broken (e.g., through the dominant presence of
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The term "Failed State" originated in the 1990s, particularly in the context of
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Promoting good governance and combating further hostilities in failed states
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Recruitment - getting countries to participate in and pay for interventions
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State dysfunction : the concept and its application to South Africa
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States at Risk. Fragile Staaten als Sicherheits- und Entwicklungsproblem
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Escalation of communal group (ethnic or religious) conflicts. Examples:
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The labeling of states like Somalia or Liberia, as failed states, gives
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Exit - having some mechanism for the peacekeeping countries to withdraw
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Eli Berman; Joseph H. Felter; Jacob N. Shapiro; Erin Troland (2013).
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Democratic collapse (leading to civil war or coup d'état). Examples:
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Ulrich Schneckener's (2006) stage model defines three core elements,
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Andrews, Matt; Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael (November 2013).
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in the Anglo-American and Ulrich Schneckener in the German sphere.
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Pritchett, Lant; Woolcock, Michael; Andrews, Matt (January 2013).
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is currently the most stable and sustainable country in the list.
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and his warning of a "coming anarchy" in various global regions.
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Succession or reform crisis in authoritarian states. Examples:
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This article is about the political state. For other uses, see
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Making States Work: State Failure and the Crisis of Governance
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Chesterman, Simon; Ignatieff, Michael; Thakur, Ramesh (2004).
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Why Nations Fail? The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty
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published its eleventh annual report in 2015, prepared by the
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The Political Invention of Fragile States: The Power of Ideas
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Moss, Todd; Gunilla Pettersson; Nicolas Van de Walle (2006).
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Confronting Poverty: Weak States and U.S. National Security
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The Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law
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Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania
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Grimm, Sonja; Lemay-Hebert, Nicolas; Nay, Olivier (2016).
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Call, C. T. (2008). "The Fallacy of the 'Failed State'".
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Herbst, Jeffrey (1990). "War and the State in Africa".
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Fixing Fragile States. A new paradigm for development
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Countries according to the 2023 Fragile States Index
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Informe de desarrollo democrático de América Latina
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Oxford University Press (OUP): 469–488. 3248:"The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective" 8: 4978:United Nations Convention against Corruption 4958:Inter-American Convention Against Corruption 2919:Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States 2321:"Brazil: Successful country, failed cities?" 545:Theoretical mechanisms for state development 256:), but will need one if it needs to use it ( 109:internal conflicts among the country's clans 5016:Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity 4851:Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission 4695:Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission 4012:European Journal of International Relations 3573:"Weak States, State Failure, and Terrorism" 2413:European Journal of International Relations 2079:"Myanmar could be Asia's next failed state" 813:Regional or guerrilla rebellion. Examples: 775:Moreover, "problems of weakened states and 171:have all been described as failed states. 4894: 4863:National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine 4759:Corruption Prevention and Combating Bureau 4632: 4321: 4243: 4229: 4221: 4179:"The 'failed State' and international law" 4084:Cordesman, Anthony H.; Molot, Max (2019). 3396: 3394: 2827:When States Fail: Causes and Consequences 2580: 2510:When States Fail. Causes and Consequences 2424: 2168:"The US Navy confronts a new Suez crisis" 623:Promoting development through foreign aid 27:State that has lost its ability to govern 4793:Independent Corrupt Practices Commission 3246:Binyavanga, Wainaina (August 27, 2009). 2829:. 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US: Praeger Security International. 2344:International Political Science Review 222:, a state is defined as maintaining a 4787:Anti-Corruption Commission of Myanmar 4729:Commission Against Corruption (Macau) 4658:International Anti-Corruption Academy 4186:International Review of the Red Cross 3742:Conflict Management and Peace Science 3202: 3200: 3023: 3021: 2594: 2592: 7: 5006:2012 Indian anti-corruption movement 5001:2011 Indian anti-corruption movement 4782:Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission 4712:National Anti-Corruption Observatory 3938:Greffrath, Wynand Neethling (2015). 3877:(8). Informa UK Limited: 1491–1507. 3401:Stigall, Dan E. (February 3, 2013). 1877: 1875: 1857:. the Fund for Peace. Archived from 1825: 1823: 1821: 550:State development through war-making 4928:The Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 4823:National Anticorruption Directorate 4817:Anti-Corruption General Directorate 3961:"The Fallacy of the 'Failed State'" 3536:(11). 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In Rotberg, Robert I. (ed.). 1994:Wintour, Patrick (2023-09-13). 1781:Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 1745:Stabilization of fragile states 1715:List of ongoing armed conflicts 867:Failed states according to the 356: Very high alert (111–120) 4805:Investigation Task Force Sweep 4799:National Accountability Bureau 4271:Corruption in local government 4259:Corruption in different fields 3913:"The Failed States Index 2013" 3385:10.1016/j.worlddev.2013.05.011 3343:. Princeton University Press. 3037:Journal of Development Studies 2943:Ross, Elliot (June 28, 2013). 2319:Braathen, Einar (2011-01-24). 1947:Editorial Board (2023-05-18). 380: Elevated warning (71–80) 278:ungoverned part of the state. 1: 4913:Foreign Corrupt Practices Act 4811:Central Anticorruption Bureau 4154:10.1080/02589001.2020.1774522 4061:10.1080/01436597.2019.1573141 3812:. Cambridge University Press. 3810:The Ideology of Failed States 3571:Newman, Edward (2007-10-08). 3318:Center For Global Development 2887:. National Geographic Books. 1690:Crisis States Research Centre 416: Very sustainable (0–20) 32:Failed state (disambiguation) 4973:OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 4963:International asset recovery 4747:Central Vigilance Commission 4302:Corruption Perceptions Index 3843:Poverty, From (2010-01-13). 3542:10.1080/1057610x.2010.514696 3049:10.1080/00220388.2012.709614 2702:. 2013-09-27. Archived from 2683:see Report for Latin America 2550:State Failure. Global Issues 2379:International Studies Review 2234:International Studies Review 1883:"What makes a failed state?" 918: 913: 908: 903: 898: 893: 888: 883: 878: 840:Soviet Union under Gorbachev 494:Human rights and rule of law 480:Poverty and economic decline 469:Human flight and brain drain 5031:2017–2019 Romanian protests 3790:Taiwan Journal of Democracy 3738:"Pathways to State Failure" 3736:Goldstone, Jack A. (2008). 3112:Jablonski, Ryan S. (2014). 3070:Jablonski, Ryan S. (2014). 2818:Rotberg, Robert I. (2004). 2056:. 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(2010). 3980:10.1080/01436590802544207 3883:10.1080/01436590802544207 3754:10.1080/07388940802397343 3589:10.1080/09546550701590636 3133:10.1017/s0043887114000045 3091:10.1017/S0043887114000045 2984:10.1080/14747730701695729 2661:10.1080/14747730701695729 2613:10.1080/01436590802544207 2563:Bates, Robert H. (2008). 2552:. UK: Palgrave MacMillan. 1710:Least developed countries 1661:Criticisms of the concept 673:collective action problem 646:substantial development. 410: Sustainable (21–30) 404: More Stable (31–40) 392: Less Stable (51–60) 207:'s depiction of chaos in 4938:Whistleblower protection 4426:Cryptocurrency and crime 4086:"Iraq as a failed state" 4024:10.1177/1354066109353137 3959:Call, Charles T (2008). 3808:Woodward, Susan (2017). 3656:American Economic Review 3646:Abadie, Alberto (2005). 3337:Migdal, Joel S. (1988). 3289:10.1162/0162288041588296 2435:10.1177/1354066109353137 2356:10.1177/0192512113480054 117:Central African Republic 5066:International relations 4307:Economics of corruption 4177:Thürer, Daniel (1999). 3783:Diamond, Larry (2006). 3496:Zagaris, Bruce (2005). 3160:The Journal of Politics 2325:NIBR International Blog 1760:Violent non-state actor 836:Indonesia under Suharto 446:Foreign Policy Magazine 328:Human Development Index 4933:UK Bribery Act of 2010 4689:Oficina Anticorrupción 4438:Noble cause corruption 4295:Measures of corruption 3841:33.1 (2013): 326-341, 3277:International Security 2885:Can intervention work? 2883:Knaus, Gerald (2012). 2842:International Security 2495:10.1080/01436599615452 2268:fragilestatesindex.org 1983:. Reuters. 2023-09-20. 1807:. ABC News. 2011-07-01 639:premature load bearing 425: 422: Data unavailable 111:. 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(2004). 1705:Human capital flight 1695:Fragile States Index 731:human capital flight 530:monopoly of violence 516:Qualitative approach 500:Factionalized elites 437:Fragile States Index 398: Stable (41–50) 368: Alert (91–100) 342:Fragile States Index 286:Fragile States Index 272:political corruption 203:, as highlighted by 181:Fragile States Index 61:Fragile States Index 4468:Offshore investment 3416:: 1. Archived from 2976:2007Glob....4..475B 2916:Rotberg, I Robert. 2700:ffp.statesindex.org 2653:2007Glob....4..475B 2548:Taylor, A. (2013). 2533:Levitt, S. (2012). 2456:Kaplan, S. (2008). 1953:The Washington Post 871: 777:transnational crime 700:Autonomous recovery 456:Social indicators: 324:Freedom House Index 5076:Types of countries 4869:Warioba Commission 4807:(Papua New Guinea) 4551:Regulatory capture 4356:Commercial bribery 3919:on 6 February 2015 2753:on 6 February 2015 866: 724:isomorphic mimicry 497:Security apparatus 426: 65: 39:government failure 5048: 5047: 5044: 5043: 4884: 4883: 4622: 4621: 4599:Election security 4546:Political scandal 4281:Police corruption 3722:978-0-8157-0435-5 3629:978-1-4051-0593-4 3373:World Development 2894:978-0-393-34224-6 2519:978-0-691-11671-6 2467:978-0-275-99828-8 1767:Explanatory notes 1740:Societal collapse 1658: 1657: 616:Western countries 523:Robert I. 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Index

State failure
Failed state (disambiguation)
government failure

AMISOM
Somalia
Al-Shabaab
Fragile States Index
state
tax collection
law enforcement
security
corruption
criminality
Somalia
Siad Barre
internal conflicts among the country's clans
Afghanistan
Central African Republic
Chad
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Ethiopia
Haiti
Libya
Mali
Myanmar
Nigeria
Palestine
South Sudan
Sudan

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