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E-book State Fragility

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Fragile states expose their societies to the risk of meltdown or collapse, endangering the lives of their citizens and leaving them unable to sustain ordinary life. When this happens, famine, violent disorder and economic distress can displace many millions of people, with consequent impacts on surrounding regions. State fragility can also threaten global security by pro-viding safe havens for terrorist groups and for drug and human traffickers, and by increasing the threat of disease pandemics and mass migrations.Fragile state as a concept has gained currency since the 1990s, characterised as distressed states that generally have weak capacity to perform state functions and drive development.1 International institutions apply various approaches in defining state fragility. The World Bank uses an institutional approach. Accordingly, fragile states are those that suffer from weak policies, institutions and governance.2 Others, such as the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), also emphasise legitimacy.3 However, the precedence of the institutional approach in assessing state fragility has been criticised for underestimating the role of (local) perceptions of the legitimacy or the state and society relations.4 Some scholars, such as Migdal, Brinkerhoff and Ikpe,5 emphasise state–society relations in understanding state resilience and weaknesses. This calls for a holistic approach in studying state fragility, which can account both for state capacity and authority as well as legitimacy.States can be fragile due to deficiencies across three distinct but inter-dependent dimensions: legitimacy, capacity and authority. State legitimacy can be assessed based on the ability of the state to obtain the consent of the population to the state’s dominance. State capacity can be measured by the ability of the state to provide essential public services, and state authority can be measured by the ability of the state to control the use of physical violence within its territory. While these dimensions are crucial, we may fail to offer an accurate account of state fragility without accounting for its economy and national resilience. The former is key to stability and development, while the latter determines how resilient a state can be to internal and external shocks.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

320 BIZ s

Penerbit

London : Taylor & Francis., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

345 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781003297697

Klasifikasi

320

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Political dan Government Science

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