Taylor, A.J. orcid.org/0000-0003-0154-4838 (2016) Thoughts on the nature and consequences of ungoverned spaces. SAIS Review of International Affairs, 36 (1). pp. 5-15. ISSN 0036-0775
Abstract
Since the 1990s, ungoverned spaces have increasingly been seen as a source of serious instability and threat in the international system. Society regards ungoverned spaces as the absence of a state as the authoritative allocator of value, provider of collective goods, and holder of a monopoly of legitimate coercion. The obvious remedy, then, is state building. This apparently simple formulation obscures the complexity and variability of ungoverned spaces and the reason for their emergence. Moreover, this ignores the fact that ungoverned spaces may lack government but not governance. Ungoverned spaces can pose a security threat, but terrorist groups are rarely responsible for their creation; the reason for their emergence is poor governance that prompts the populations in these areas to render themselves ungovernable by the existing central state.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2016 Johns Hopkins University. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 27 Jun 2017 13:42 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jul 2017 18:21 |
Published Version: | http://doi.org/10.1353/sais.2016.0002 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1353/sais.2016.0002 |