States-Within-States Incipient Political Entities in the PostCold War Era [Hardcover]

Many of the existing juridical states in the Third World remain fragile and prone to collapse. Yet, these conditions have not always given way to anarchy. In some cases, the breakdown of weak and often arbitrary states has given way to more coherent and viable, though not necessarily benevolent, political entities. This book examines the extent to which these sub-units - ' states within states ' - represent alternatives that the international community could look to in a long-term effort to bring stability, security and development to peoples in the Third World.Acknowledgements States-Within-States: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives; P.Kingston States-Within-States: An Introduction to their Empirical Attributes; I.S.Spears From De Facto States to States-Within-States: Progress, Problems and Prospects; S.Pegg The Collapse of Sierra Leone and the Emergence of Multiple States-Within-States; W.Reno Sudan's South Blue Nile Territory and the Struggle Against Marginalization; J.Young Rebuilding A House of Many Mansions: The Rise and Fall of Militia Cantons in Lebanon; P.Kingston & M.Zahar Colombia: The Partial Collapse of the State and the Emergence of Aspiring State-Makers; A.M.Bejarano & E.Pizarro Providing Humanitarian Assistance behind Enemy Lines: UNICEF's Eastern Zaire Operation, 1996-1998; L.T.Munro Why Not to State-Build New Sudan; K.Crossley Safe Havens as Political Projects: The Case of Iraqi Kurdistan; D.Romano A State-Within-A-Failed-State: Is Somaliland Headed for Recognition or Reunification?; M.Bryden Conclusions and Policy Options; P.Kingston & I.Spears Notes on Contributors

One of the most important developments in recent years has been the loss of control over territory by many states. However, the decline of central states does not simply result in anarchy as there are often groups who are willing to provide some kind of order on a more local basis. As a result, states within states have appeared as sub-national movements gail#-