{"id":157,"date":"2011-10-11T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T01:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2011-10-12T21:17:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T01:17:59","slug":"article-on-state-weakness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/article-on-state-weakness\/","title":{"rendered":"Article on State Weakness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published a piece in the Netherlands-based NATO journal <em>Atlantic Perspective.<\/em> Here&#8217;s a link to the issue:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlcom.nl\/upload\/AP_2011_nr__6.pdf\" title=\"Atlantic Perspective, No. 6\">http:\/\/www.atlcom.nl\/upload\/AP_2011_nr__6.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ungoverned Territories: Engaging local nongovernmental entities in U.S. security strategy<\/p>\n<p>State weakness has become a prime concern for U.S. national security, and so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcungoverned territories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are central to this concern. However, we need to differentiate between different kinds of ungoverned territories, and give special attention to zones of competing governance &#8211; places that are governed by entities other than the forces of an established nation-state &#8211; and the hierarchy of loyalties within them. This article describes key characteristics of these areas, and offers implications organized around three activities: research (more refined analysis and clarity of terms are needed), policy (improving state legitimacy may be more important than addressing weaknesses in capacity or will), and strategy (we must consider alternatives to our state-centric strategies for tackling non-state security threats).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlcom.nl\/upload\/AP_2011_nr__6.pdf\" title=\"Click Here for the complete article.\">Click here for the complete article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published a piece in the Netherlands-based NATO journal Atlantic Perspective. Here&#8217;s a link to the issue: http:\/\/www.atlcom.nl\/upload\/AP_2011_nr__6.pdf Ungoverned Territories: Engaging local nongovernmental entities in U.S. security strategy State weakness has become a prime concern for U.S. national security, and so-called \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcungoverned territories\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 are central to this concern. However, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/11\/article-on-state-weakness\/\" class=\"btn btn-link continue-link\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-terrorist-groups"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jamesforest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}