Open AccessBringing the state back: Strong versus weak states
Author(s) -
Svetlana Djurdjevic-Lukic
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
međunarodni problemi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2406-0690
pISSN - 0025-8555
DOI - 10.2298/medjp0602036d
Subject(s) - vagueness , framing (construction) , weakness , state (computer science) , geopolitics , positive economics , scholarship , psychological intervention , political science , law and economics , sociology , economics , psychology , computer science , politics , law , history , artificial intelligence , medicine , algorithm , archaeology , anatomy , psychiatry , fuzzy logic
This paper explores the problem of defining a weak state and the indicators for assessment of a state's strength. The author argues that there is no clear conception because so many different phenomena are attributed to state weakness. State weakness is observed in very different contexts - from geopolitical, to societal, to administrational efficiency. The indicators proposed are not precise even within each of three separate clusters of framing state weakness detected here. Related scholarship is so diversified that term ' weak state' suffers from considerable conceptual vagueness. All-inclusiveness of the concept might provide for various levels of intrusiveness, and hence bears long-term policy implications and practical consequences, for proclaiming of a state weak offer a basis for various forms of foreign interventions