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Title:

Troubled regions and failing states : the clustering and contagion of armed conflicts / edited by Kristian Berg Harpviken.

Publisher:

Emerald,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xi, 380 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Failed states.
Failed states--Regional disparities.
National security.
Political violence.
Political stability.
Regionalism.

Other Authors:

Harpviken, Kristian Berg.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Webs of war : managing regional conflict formations in West Africa and Central Africa / St©®ale Ulrikse Regional responses -- The theory of failure and the failure of theory : 'state failure', the idea of the state and the practice of state building / Stein Sundst℗øl Eriksen -- Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound / Georgi Derluguian and Timothy Earle -- Corruption and conflict : contrasting logics of collective action / Jens Christopher Andvig -- Colliding state-building projects and regional insecurity in post-Soviet space : Georgia versus Russia in South Ossetia / S. Neil MacFarlane -- Transforming West African militia networks for postwar recovery / William Reno -- Troubled regions -- Regional security : demarcating theoretical and empirical borders / Rodrigo Tavares -- Strong states in a troubled region : anatomies of a Middle Eastern regional conflict formation / Reinoud Leenders -- State strength on the Ethiopian border : cross-border conflicts in the Horn of Africa / Axel Borchgrevink -- Natural resources, international regimes and state-building : diamonds in West Africa / J. Andrew Grant -- Re-examining the 'colour revolutions' : the turn of the tide from Belgrade to Ulan Bator / Pavel K. Baev -- Caught in the middle? Regional perspectives on Afghanistan / Kristian Berg Harpviken -- Regional responses -- Power, security and regional conflict management in Southern Africa and South Asia / Laurie Nathan -- State responses to transnational challenges : the evolution of regional security organisations in Africa / Karin Dokken -- Webs of war : managing regional conflict formations in West Africa and Central Africa / St©®ale Ulrikse

Series:

Comparative social research, 0195-6310 ; v. 27.

ISBN:

9780857241023 (ebook)
0857241028 (ebk.)
085724101X (hbk.)
9780857241016 (hbk.)

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)