State Failure and Regional Insecurity
The project studies the connections between state failure and the regional security situation.In cooperation with researchers from PRIO. Participants
Jens Chr Andvig
Axel Borchgrevink
Stein Sundstøl Eriksen
Ståle Ulriksen
State failure, manifesting itself in the inability of a state to maintain its monopoly of violence, has become a widespread phenomenon in several regions, including Central Asia/Afghanistan, the Caucasus, and Africa. While the weaknesses of the institutions of the state in question are an obvious dimension of state failure, there is also an important international dimension. In many of these cases, the failing states form part of regional complexes, where conflicts are interwoven and violence spills across borders.
Could the phenomenon of state failure be better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent could studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions to be explored in this Strategic Collaboration Programme.
Funding
Norges Forskningsråd
- Andvig, Jens Chr (2008). Corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa and its sources of evidence. NUPI Working Paper: 744. 58 pages. This paper deals mainly with present corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa and focuses on corruption in the public sector.