THE IDEOLOGY OF “FAILED STATES” and International Intervention

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18.04.2017
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18:00
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Золотой зал (429)
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Университет
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Susan L. Woodward

What do we mean when we use the term, failed states? It makes no sense theoretically and empirically, and is a political threat to countries so labeled. Yet the term is hugely popular and common place these days. Its origins tell us about the nature of transitions in the international order but very little about countries called failed states. The term is better understood as an ideology for external actors who seek to intervene in poor countries – for development assistance, peacebuilding, and statebuilding – but who cannot operate without certain preconditions for their organizations’ mandates. This lecture will argue with details about how such interventions actually make matters worse for those states and, at the same time, prevent changes in the current international order that the term first arose to promote.

 

Brief Bio:

Susan L. Woodward is professor of political science at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. A specialist on the Balkans, her current research focuses on transitions from civil war to peace, international security and state failure, and post-war state-building. She was a member of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration, 2010-2014, a senior fellow at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, 1990-1999, and then at the Centre for Defence Studies, King’s College, London, 1999-2000, head of the Analysis and Assessment Unit for UNPROFOR in 1994, and a professor of political science at Yale University, 1982-89, Williams College, 1978-82, and Northwestern University, 1972-1977. Her many writings include The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Balkan Tragedy: Chaos and Dissolution after the Cold War (Brookings Press, 1995), and Socialist Unemployment: The Political Economy of Yugoslavia, 1945-1990 (Princeton University Press, 1995).

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