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External Actors, State-Building and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction

Cover: Governance - Special Issue

Cover: Governance - Special Issue

Stephen D. Krasner, Thomas Risse – 2014

This article introduces the themes and arguments of the special issue. While virtually all polities enjoy uncontested international legal sovereignty, there are wide variations in statehood, that is, the monopoly over the means of violence and the ability of the state to make and implement policies. Areas of limited statehood are not, however, ungoverned spaces where anarchy and chaos prevail. The provision of collective goods and services is possible even under extremely adverse conditions of fragile or failed statehood. We specify the conditions under which external efforts at state-building and service provision by state and nonstate actors can achieve their goals. We focus on the extent to which external actors enhance the capacity (statehood) of authority structures in weak states, or directly contribute to the provision of collective goods and services, such as public health, clean environment, social security, and infrastructure. We argue that three factors determine success: legitimacy, task complexity, and institutionalization, including the provision of adequate resources.

Title
External Actors, State-Building and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood: Introduction
Publisher
Wiley
Location
Hoboken, NJ
Keywords
external actors, fragile states, state-building, health, education, rule of law, security, Research Project A1, Research Project T3
Date
2014-01-06
Identifier
ISSN 1468-0491
Appeared in
Krasner, Stephen/Risse, Thomas (eds.): External Actors, State-Building and Service Provision in Areas of Limited Statehood, Special Issue of Governance: An International Journal of Policy, Administration and Institutions, 27 (4), 545-567.
Language
eng
Type
Text