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Explore deep questions about governance and stability with The Idea of Failed States: Community, Society, Nation, and Patterns of Cohesion. This Routledge publication examines why certain states successfully deliver public services to their citizens while others struggle with internal conflict and poverty. Many existing works on failed states focus on advocacy for intervention. This book takes a different path by providing rigorous analysis. It challenges conventional ideas about state strength and suggests that standard institutional approaches may actually obscure more than they reveal. By looking at patterns of cohesion, the text offers a new way to understand the relationship between community, society, and the nation. This is a necessary resource for anyone studying the mechanics of statehood and the real reasons behind political instability.

Key Features

Provides a critical analysis of why some states fail to deliver essential public services to their citizens.

Challenges existing literature by moving away from advocacy for intervention toward objective analysis.

Examines the limitations of institutional approaches to measuring and understanding state strength.

Investigates the connection between internal conflict, poverty, and state stability.

Offers a new perspective on the relationships between community, society, and the nation.

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Amazon UK
Release Date
10 August 2017
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30 March 2017

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