States-Within-States

Incipient Political Entities in the Post—Cold War Era

P. Kingston, I. Spears, P. Kingston, I. Spears

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2004
• Print ISBN:
  9781403963857
• eBook ISBN:
  9781403981011
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - ' states within states ' - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security and development to peoples in the Third World.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: States-Within-States: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives
• Chapter One: States-Within-States: An Introduction to Their Empirical Attributes
• Chapter Two: From De Facto States to States-Within-States: Progress, Problems, and Prospects
• Chapter Three: The Collapse of Sierra Leone and the Emergence of Multiple States-Within-States
• Chapter Four: Sudan’s South Blue Nile Territory and the Struggle Against Marginalization
• Chapter Five: Rebuilding A House of Many Mansions: The Rise and Fall of Militia Cantons in Lebanon
• Chapter Six: Colombia: The Partial Collapse of the State and the Emergence of Aspiring State-Makers
• Chapter Seven: Providing Humanitarian Assistance Behind Rebel Lines: UNICEF’s Eastern Zaïre Operation 1996–1998
• Chapter Eight: Why Not to State-Build New Sudan
• Chapter Nine: Safe Havens as Political Projects: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan
• Chapter Ten: State-Within-a-Failed-State: Somaliland and the Challenge of International Recognition
• Conclusions and Policy Options
• Notes on Contributors
• Index