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A failed state is a state that has lost its ability to fulfill fundamental security and development functions, lacking effective control over its territory and borders.
Failed state, a state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries. The governing capacity of a failed state is attenuated.
A failed state is a government that has become incapable of providing the basic functions and responsibilities of a sovereign nation, such as military defense, law enforcement, justice, education, or economic stability.
A failed state is the term used to describe a state whose government has lost control of its territory, economy, and people. A state that is unstable but has not yet fully failed is called a fragile state. Failed states are often among the world's least-developed countries, with a low Human Development Index score.
Failed State – We define a “failed state” as a condition of “state collapse” – eg, a state that can no longer perform its basic security, and development functions and that has no effective control over its territory and borders.
The simplest definition of a failed state is one that cannot fulfil its most basic responsibility: to provide security. If the state no longer has a monopoly on violence, everything else breaks...
a country whose government is considered to have failed at some of its basic responsibilities, for example keeping the legal system working correctly, and providing public services (= electricity, water, education, hospitals, etc.): Failed states are increasingly trapped in a cycle of poverty and violence.
This book examines contemporary cases of nation-state collapse and fail-ure.1 It establishes clear criteria for distinguishing collapse and failure from generic weakness or apparent...
a country whose government is considered to have failed at some of its basic responsibilities, for example keeping the legal system working correctly, and providing public services (= electricity, water, education, hospitals, etc.): Failed states are increasingly trapped in a cycle of poverty and violence.
This article provides a critical review of recent literature that has attempted to define what a ‘failed state’ is and explains why such states emerge. It is argued that aggregate indices of ‘failure’ are misleading due to the wide variations of capacity across state functions within a polity.