“…The failure of the State can be calibrated in many ways: the unwillingness to protect vulnerable citizens from slavery and abuse, the inability to sustain a modest prosperity, the apparently endemic resort to mass emigration, the descent into systemic corruption, the throwing away of hard-won sovereignty, the persistence of structural inequality. But we can also see it even if we look at the State in its simplest expression as a set of institutions…”
Three cracked pillars of a failed state – UK News | Online Newspaper | The Irish Times – Tue, Aug 06, 2013
August 7, 2013
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Mali’s Precarious Democracy and the Causes of Conflict | United States Institute of Peace
April 23, 2013
African Center for Strategic Studies, Articles on Africa Africa, Conflict, corruption, peter singhateh Leave a comment
Mali’s Precarious Democracy and the Causes of Conflict | United States Institute of Peace.
This report seeks to explain the fragile nature of Malian democracy before the 2012 coup and the origins of the current crisis. Widespread corruption, resurgent violence in the north, and a growing illicit trade implicated state officials as the principal causes of state collapse…
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