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This paper aims to improve the understanding and treatment of failed states by focusing on critical challenges at the intersections between security, economics, and politics and on the guiding goal of empowering local populations.

Failed states. --- State failure --- Political science

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Is the phenomenon of state failure better understood through a focus on the regional context? To what extent may studies of regional security benefit from a focus on the capacities and vulnerabilities of the states involved? These are the questions addressed in this volume of Comparative Social Research. Substantially, this special issue operates at the intersection of the larger debates on state failure and on regional (in-) security, relating to various perspectives within each of these. State failure, manifesting itself in the inability of a state to maintain its monopoly of violence, has become a widespread phenomenon in several regions of the world. While the weakness of the institutions of the state in question is an obvious dimension of state failure, there is also an important international dimension. In many of these cases, conflicts are interwoven and violence spills across borders.

Failed states --- Failed states. --- National security. --- Political stability. --- Political violence. --- Regionalism. --- Regional disparities. --- Destabilization (Political science) --- Political instability --- Stability, Political --- National security --- National security policy --- NSP (National security policy) --- Security policy, National --- State failure --- Government policy --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Legitimacy of governments --- Human geography --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Violence --- Political crimes and offenses --- Terrorism --- Economic policy --- International relations --- Military policy --- Political science --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- International relations. Foreign policy --- Polemology --- Social research & statistics. --- Sociology. --- Social Science --- Research. --- Sociology --- General.