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Автор: Chowdhury, Arjun
Название: The Myth of International Order
Перевод названия: Арьюн Чаудхари: Миф о международном порядке
ISBN: 9780190686727
Издательство: Oxford Academ
Классификация:

Торговля наркотиками / незаконный оборот наркотиков

Организованная преступность

Политика и политический строй

Политология и политическая философия

Сравнительная политология

Политика центрального правительства

Международные отношения

Дипломатия

Международные институты

Сфера обслуживания

ISBN-10: 0190686723
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 272
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 25.01.2018
Язык: English
Размер: 158 x 233 x 23
Читательская аудитория: Faculty, graduate students, and upper-level undergraduates in two fields: Political Science (International Relations and Comparative Politics); Sociology (Historical Sociology). It should also be of interest in interdisciplinary contexts: Global/Inte
Основная тема: Politics
Подзаголовок: Why Weak States Persist and Alternatives to the State Fade Away
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: In February of 2011, Libyan citizens rebelled against Muammar Qaddafi and quickly unseated him. The speed of the regimes collapse confounded many observers, and the ensuing civil war showed Foreign Policys index of failed states to be deeply flawed--FP had, in 2010, identified 110 states as
being more likely than Libya to descend into chaos. They were spectacularly wrong, but this points to a larger error in conventional foreign policy wisdom: failed, or weak and unstable, states are not anomalies but are instead in the majority. More states resemble Libya than Sweden.

Why are most states weak and unstable? Taking as his launching point Charles Tillys famous dictum that war made the state, and the state made war, Arjun Chowdhury argues that the problem lies in our mistaken equation of democracy and economic power with stability. But major wars are the true
source of stability: only the existential crisis that such wars produced could lead citizens to willingly sacrifice the resources that allowed the state to build the capacity it needed for survival. Developing states in the postcolonial era never experienced the demands major interstate war placed
on European states, and hence citizens in those nations have been unwilling to sacrifice the resources that would build state capacity. For example, India and Mexico are established democracies with large economies. Despite their indices of stability, both countries are far from stable: there is an
active Maoist insurgency in almost a quarter of Indias districts, and Mexico is plagued by violence, drug trafficking, and high levels of corruption in local government. Nor are either effective at collecting revenue. As a consequence, they do not have the tax base necessary to perform the most
fundamental tasks of modern states: controlling organized violence in a given territory and providing basic services to citizens. By this standard, the majority of states in the world--about two thirds--are weak states.

Chowdury maintains that an accurate evaluation of international security requires a normative shift: the language of weakness and failure belies the fact that strong states are exceptions. Chowdhury believes that dismantling this norm is crucial, as it encourages developing states to pursue
state-building via war, which is an extremely costly approach--in terms of human lives and capital. Moreover, in our era, such an approach is destined to fail because the total wars of the past are highly unlikely to occur today. Just as importantly, the non-state alternatives on offer are not
viable alternatives. For better or worse, we will continue to live in a state-dominated world where most states are weak. Counterintuitive and sweeping in its coverage, The Myth of International Order demands that we fundamentally rethink foundational concepts of international politics like
political stability and state failure.

Дополнительное описание: Chapter 1: Incapable yet central: The paradox of the modern state; Chapter 2: The self-undermining state; Chapter 3: Europe as an Other; Chapter 4: Restaging the state; Chapter 5: Sympathy for the neoliberal; Chapter 6: Origins of anarchy: Anti-colonial m

The Myth of International Order, Chowdhury, Arjun