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 as the 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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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Johns Hopkins University Press, 2016. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in SAIS Review of International Affairs. Uploaded 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: | 04 Jul 2016 12:13 |
Last Modified: | 24 Sep 2024 08:08 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1353/sais.2016.0002 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:100161 |