Comparative Social Research
Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflicts
ISBN: 978-0-85724-101-6, eISBN: 978-0-85724-102-3
ISSN: 0195-6310
Publication date: 2 July 2010
Citation
(2010), "Comparative Social Research", Berg Harpviken, K. (Ed.) Troubled Regions and Failing States: The Clustering and Contagion of Armed Conflicts (Comparative Social Research, Vol. 27), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, p. iii. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0195-6310(2010)0000027024
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
- Comparative Social Research
- Comparative Social Research
- Copyright page
- List of contributors
- Editorial board
- Troubled regions and failing states: Introduction
- The theory of failure and the failure of theory: ‘state failure’, the idea of the state and the practice of state building
- Strong chieftaincies out of weak states, or elemental power unbound
- Corruption and conflict: Contrasting logics of collective action
- Colliding state-building projects and regional insecurity in post-soviet space: Georgia versus Russia in South Ossetia
- Transforming West African militia networks for postwar recovery
- Regional security: Demarcating theoretical and empirical borders
- Strong states in a troubled region: Anatomies of a Middle Eastern regional conflict formation
- State strength on the Ethiopian border: Cross-border conflicts in the horn of Africa
- Natural resources, international regimes and state-building: Diamonds in west Africa
- Re-examining the ‘colour revolutions’: The turn of the tide from Belgrade to Ulan Bator
- Caught in the middle? Regional perspectives on Afghanistan
- Power, security and regional conflict management in Southern Africa and South Asia
- State responses to transnational challenges: The evolution of regional security organisations in Africa
- Webs of war: Managing regional conflict formations in West Africa and Central Africa