State Failure

by Andrew Taylor

Book Overview

During the 1990s the concept of state failure emerged as part of an attempt to explain and understand the complex, post-Cold War, new world dis-order. State failure achieved prominence, being applied to situations of institutional collapse and mass violence that appeared to herald a new level of international instability. Ungoverned territories hosted criminal networks, narco-barons, and terrorists; they would be sources of threats flowing from environmental...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230247601
• ISBN13: 9780230247604
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.6"