State Failure and Fragility: Causes, Cases, Discussions

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Introduction - State Failure and Fragility: Causes, Cases, Discussions

Aylin Ece Çiçek, Giray Gerim

State failure has become a topic that has begun to gain visibility in many disciplines of social sciences since the early 1990s. The main reasons for this situation were the increase (and/or gaining visibility) of states that could not carry out their basic functions in various geographies of the world with the end of the Cold War and the perception of these states as a threat to the economic, social and political frameworks of the global order. For this reason, the first studies aimed to diagnose the reasons that caused the state’s insolvency or cessation of functioning and how they could be treated (Helman & Ratner, 1992; Zartman, 1995). A common and prominent opinion in these studies was that the states that emerged in geographies and societies that did not have statehood experience were also among those who created the problem.



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