From Somalia to Lybia: failed state, a new model of state?

The term “failed state” has become common language, both politicians and jurists and journalists, since it was coined in 1992. Since then, many states have been labeled as failures. The first was Somalia, but has been followed by others such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq and most recently, Libya or ev...

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Autor principal: López Martín, Anna Gemma
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Derecho 2013
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Sumario:The term “failed state” has become common language, both politicians and jurists and journalists, since it was coined in 1992. Since then, many states have been labeled as failures. The first was Somalia, but has been followed by others such as Afghanistan, Haiti, Iraq and most recently, Libya or even Syria. Faced with this growing reality we wonder whether we are new to a state model. To do this, we will enter the analysis of both the expression and the concept of failed state, attempting to solve also the factors and causes that lead to a state to “fail”, in order to answer the question posed.