State Failure and Regional Insecurity
Prosjektet undersøker samanhengen mellom statars samanbrot og den regionale tryggingssituasjonen.Samarbeid med forskarar frå PRIO. Deltakarer
Jens Chr. Andvig
Axel Borchgrevink
Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
Statlege samanbrot, manifestert i ein stats manglande evne til å oppretthalde sitt valdsmonopol, har blitt eit utbreidd fenomen i fleire regionar, inkludert Sentral-Asia/Afghanistan, Kaukasus og Afrika. På same tid som statars institusjonelle veikskap er eit tydeleg trekk i statlege samanbrot, finst det òg ein viktig internasjonal dimensjon. I mange av falla former desse statane delar av regionale kompleks der konfliktar er samanvevde og vald går over grensene. Kan fenomenet statlege samanbrot bli betre forstått gjennom auka fokus på den regionale konteksten? I kor stor grad kan studiar på regional tryggleik dra fordel av fokus på kapasitetane til dei involverte statane og på kor sårbare dei er? Dette er spørsmål som vil bli studerte i prosjektet.
Finansiering
Noregs Forskningsråd
Publikasjonar
- Borchgrevink, Axel
(2010). State strength on the Ethiopian border: Cross-border conflicts in the Horn of Africa,
in Harpviken, Kristian Berg [ed.], Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict, Comparative Social Research, Volume 27,
.Bingley,Emerald.s. 171-196.The article analyses conflict dynamics across three of Ethiopia’s borders: with Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. It argues that differences in conflict dynamics can in part be understood as related to differences in state strength and state presence on both sides of the border. [url] - Eriksen, Stein Sundstøl
(2010). The Theory of Failure and the Failure of Theory: 'State Failure', the Idea of the State and the Practice of State Building,
in Harpviken, Kristian Berg [ed.], Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict, Comparative Social Research, Volume 27
.Bingley,Emerald .s. 27-50.This article provides a critique of the discourse of 'failed states' and outlines an alternative approach to studying state formation. [url] - Andvig, Jens Chr.
(2010). Corruption and Conflict: Contrasting Logics of Collective Action,
in Harpviken, Kristian Berg [ed.], Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict, Comparative Social Research, Volume 27
.Bingley, Emerald.s. 77-102.Extensive corruption and civil wars are two different symptoms of state failure, but have most of the time been studied separately. This article systematically compares the organizational characteristics of the two phenomena as well as the various research efforts into them, with a focus on economic explanations. [url] - Ulriksen, Ståle
(2010). Webs of War: Managing Regional Conflict Formations in West Africa and Central Africa,
in Harpviken, Kristian Berg [ed.], Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflict, Comparative Social Research, Volume 27
.Bingley, Emerald.s. 355-380.This article argues that many armed, non-state groups in West Africa and Central Africa should be seen as regional actors, and thus that conventional two-level analysis does not catch the complexity of conflict in those regions. [url]