Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age

By Vesna Bojicic-Dzelilovic

Persistent State Weakness in the Global Age addresses the question of why state weakness in the global era persists. It debunks a common assumption that state weakness is a stop-gap on the path to state failure and state collapse. Informed by a globalization perspective, the book shows how state weakness is frequently self-reproducing and functional. The interplay of global actors, policies and norms is analyzed from the standpoint of their internalization in a weak state through transnational networks. Contributors examine the reproduction of partial and discriminatory rule at the heart of persistent state weakness, drawing on a wide geographical range of case studies including the Middle East, the Balkans, the post-Soviet states and sub-Saharan Africa. The study of state-weakening dynamics related to institutional incapacity, colonial and war legacies, legitimacy gaps, economic informality, democratization and state-building provides an insight into durability and resilience of weak states in the global age.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754676129
• ISBN13: 9780754676126
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"