… failing and failed states breed terrorism and political violence … 7 In this analysis I use several
descriptive terms of state failure … Failing states are sometimes referred to as weak or fragile …

… characteristics of state failure and state collapse in the post–… Characterizing failed states is
thus an important and relevant … characterize failed states usually stem from or have roots in …

… assumpt that the existing state-based international legal fr responses to state failure. It offers
an … However we analyze the root causes of such conflict and misery, the humanitarian and …

… With respect to the first theme, in the early modern period, capitalism was able to take root
and … This is true for Africa, despite its being home to the majority of collapsed states of the …

… The above forms of violence can stem from a variety of factors, but feminists and other …
risks posed by failed and failing states, the characteristics of state failure most associated with …

… of failed states, to adopt a currently fashionable notion that is conventionally applied to states
… characteristics of failed states can be identified. One is their inability or unwillingness to …

… , obviously stem from street boys, ex-… of failed states, dysfunctional institutions and lack of
“good governance” at the periphery of the international system has pushed the process of state-…

… states—and preventing state collapse—in order to deny physical space for terrorist
organizations. Therefore, weak or failed states … network to take root—was still key to the 9/11 plot. …

… states according to criteria developed by the Failed States Project. The opening chapter
distinguishes weak from failed and failed from collapsed states… root cause of nation-state failure. …

… There is some irony in Aguirre’s choice of me for this project, and particularly in my own
pushing the envelope of criticism of the concept of state failure as far as I have in this book, …