State Failure in the Modern World - 9780804776738

State Failure in the Modern WorldAuthor(s): Zaryab Iqbal, Harvey Starr\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804776738, 978-0804776738\nSynopsis\nState failure is seen as one of the significant threats to regional and international stability in the current international system. State Failure in the Modern World presents a comprehensive, systematic, and empirically rigorous analysis of the full range of the state failure process in the post-World War II state systemincluding what state failure means, its causes, what accounts for its duration, its consequences, and its implications. Among the questions the book addresses are: when and why state failure occurs, why it recurs in any single state, and when and why its consequences spread to other states. \n\n The book sets out the array of problems in previous work on state failure with respect to conceptualization and definition, as well as how the causes.