PUBAFRS/IS 670 Rebuilding Failed and Weak States

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PUBAFRS/IS 670Rebuilding Failed and Weak States

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2nd Bush-Gore Debate, Oct. 2000

• Somalia. Started off as a humanitarian mission
  then changed into a nation-building mission, and
  that's where the mission went wrong. The mission
  was changed. And as a result, our nation paid a
  price. And so I don't think our troops ought to
  be used for what's called nation-building. I
  think our troops ought to be used to fight and
  win war. I think our troops ought to be used to
  help overthrow a dictator sic when it's in our
  best interests. But in this case, it was a
  nation-building exercise. And same with Haiti, I
  wouldn't have supported either.

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Bush Inauguration 2005

• We are led, by events and common sense, to one
  conclusion The survival of liberty in our land
  increasingly depends on the success of liberty in
  other lands. The best hope for peace in our world
  is the expansion of freedom in all the world
• So it is the policy of the United States to seek
  and support the growth of democratic movements
  and institutions in every nation and culture,
  with the ultimate goal of ending tyranny in our
  world.

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NATION
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specific group of individuals sharing similar
language, culture and religion, thoughts and
ideologies, ..
NATION
..possessing a political community and a feeling
of national self-consciousness
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NATION-STATE
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.a nation possessing a state of their own, which
has complete authority to exercise the policies
of their choice and conduct economic, political
and social relations with foreign countries of
their own choices ..
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Indicators of State Failure

• High crime and corruption
• Crumbling infrastructure
• Poverty and high degree of economic disparity
• Closed economic system
• Absence of rights/undemocratic
• Informal educational and medical systems
• Irrelevant borders and absence of control
• States cannot adequately deliver public goods and
  services to their citizens

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Categories of Decline

• Weak
• Failing
• Failed
• Collapsed

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Categories of Decline

• Weak
• Failing
• Failed
• Collapsed

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Categories of Decline

• Weak
• Failing
• Failed
• Collapsed

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Categories of Decline

• Weak
• Failing
• Failed
• Collapsed

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From failure...
Inability of state institutions to deliver public
goods and services
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to collapse
State of natureno legal governance institutions
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Three Scenarios
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Peaceful Regime Transition
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Implosion
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External Military Intervention
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