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POLITICAL STABILITY--AFRICA, SOUTHERN --- SOUTH AFRICA--NATIONAL SECURITY

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Le revers de la jaquette indique : "Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship-which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures-overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state. To demonstrate the harmful consequences of foreign subversion for state authority, Crippling Leviathan marshals a wealth of evidence and presents in-depth studies of Russia's relations with the post-Soviet states, Malaysian subversion of the Philippines in the 1970s, and Thai subversion of Vietnamese-occupied Cambodia in the 1980s. The evidence presented by Lee is persuasive: foreign subversion weakens the state. She challenges the conventional wisdom on statebuilding, which has long held that conflict promotes the development of strong, territorially consolidated states. Lee argues instead that conflictual international politics prevents state development and degrades state authority. In addition, Crippling Leviathan illuminates the use of subversion as an underappreciated and important feature of modern statecraft. Rather than resort to war, states resort to subversion. Policymakers interested in ameliorating the consequences of ungoverned space must recognize the international roots that sustain weak statehood."

Political stability. --- Subversive activities. --- Sovereignty, Violation of. --- Legitimacy of governments. --- International relations. --- Stabilité politique. --- Activités subversives. --- État. --- Souveraineté. --- Légitimité (science politique) --- Relations internationales. --- STATE, THE --- POLITICAL STABILITY --- SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

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Latin American countries embraced liberal democracy as the antidote to the past ills of military dictatorships, human-rights abuses and extreme poverty. Yet, more than twenty years on, states are still embroiled in armed combat with rebels who export their violence and traffic drugs across borders, threatening to draw neighbouring states into conflict with one another. Throughout the region, there is a tendency to supplement diplomatic action with military posturing. As ideological rivalries reassert themselves and competition for resources increases, so doest the risk that political confrontation may once again get out of hand and destabilise regional relations. The regional security architecture is not well-suited to controlling these risks, and neither the US nor rising power Brazil is playing the role of regional mediator. Though few incidents have escalated into war over the last two decades, the shifting regional power balance, together with a rise in authoritarian government and growth in defence spending, give cause for concern. This paper analyses the sources of inter-state conflict in Latin America and the potential policy options to tackle the region's cycle of instability.

Polemology --- Latin America --- Political stability --- Stabilité politique --- Amérique latine --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Stabilité politiqueLatin America --- Amérique latinePolitics and government --- Stabilité politique --- Amérique latine

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Political stability --- Stabilité politique --- Developing countries --- Pays en développement --- Politics and government. --- Politique et gouvernement --- PolemologyDeveloping countries --- Political systems --- Polemology