Description:Many states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse because they face challenges from cohesive groups within their borders. Such groups form states-within-states having many of the functional characteristics of states - including administrative structures, defined territories, and armed militias - but their status remains contested and unclear. From Colombia to Lebanon, from Iraqi Kurdistan to the Sudan, the contests between central control and regional autonomy often turn violent and pose severe humanitarian challenges problematic to the international community given the norms of sovereignty and non-intervention in domestic affairs. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - states within states - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security, and development to peoples in the Third World. This book will be of interest to practitioners and scholars alike in the fields of international relations, conflict resolution and peace-building, and development studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era. To get started finding States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
202
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Release
2010
ISBN
1281364622
States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era
Description: Many states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse because they face challenges from cohesive groups within their borders. Such groups form states-within-states having many of the functional characteristics of states - including administrative structures, defined territories, and armed militias - but their status remains contested and unclear. From Colombia to Lebanon, from Iraqi Kurdistan to the Sudan, the contests between central control and regional autonomy often turn violent and pose severe humanitarian challenges problematic to the international community given the norms of sovereignty and non-intervention in domestic affairs. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - states within states - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security, and development to peoples in the Third World. This book will be of interest to practitioners and scholars alike in the fields of international relations, conflict resolution and peace-building, and development studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era. To get started finding States Within States: Incipient Political Entities in the Post-Cold War Era, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.