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STATE WEAKNESS IN REGIONAL AND COMPARATIVE
PERSPECTIVE:
THE EASTERN EUROPEAN BORDERLAND
Prof. Tetyana Malyarenko, Prof. Stefan Wolff
The
proposed project is aimed at a through analysis of the conceptual and empirical
links between dynamically related phenomena of state weakness/failure and
regional security as it is applied to the Eastern European borderland –
The
Eastern European borderland has been considered as a region that consists of
weak or failing states. Each of these states is "unhappy in its own way”.
Divided
Against
the background of the above developments, this research project seeks to investigate
dynamic process of state weakness (state weakness can be arrested or reversed,
it does not automatically lead to state failure), domestic and regional
factors, determining peculiarities of state weakness in Ukraine, Moldova and
Belarus; and considers the nature and role of state and non-state actors, e.g.
transnational criminal networks, structural configurations between them, as
well as strategic interests of outside powers that may bolster the capacity of
individual states to cope with threats and risks of failure. A better
understanding of the regional dynamics of state weakness (e.g. how actors and
the structures of their interaction, contribute to the likelihood of weakness
or failure in a particular state) will contribute to more effective
intervention strategy.