Hagmann, Tobias; Hoehne, Markus V. - In: Journal of International Development 21 (2009) 1, pp. 42-57
Much of the current literature on state failure and collapse suffers from serious conceptual flaws. It ignores the variegated types of empirical statehood that exist on the ground, it conflates the absence of a central government with anarchy, it creates an unhelpful distinction between...