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Post-Partition Limbo States: Failed State Formation and Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Jammu-and-Kashmir

Vasi, Lillian
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242067824

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2009, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Political Science.
Failed states have been described in scholarly publications as states that no longer function as bordered regions within which exist a functional government providing for the inhabitants border security, political stability, transparency, economic development, cultural independence, supportive infrastructure, and a judicial system based on rule of law maintaining order effectively. A subset of the failed state perspectives developed and defined in this research project is the limbo state model. The central concept of a limbo state is that the region or state, while displaying traits of statehood, such as having a border, an infrastructure, seeming economic development, and semblance of a functioning government, is not an independent sovereign state but is actually a minor limbo state controlled by another major sovereign state that actually controls the minor state in the military, economic, and political realms. The limbo state model is based on four empirical explanatory concepts that define the "limbo" aspects of this model. Briefly, these four explanatory concepts are: 1) patterns of invasions by and political and administrative domination by a state occupying the limbo state over a period of years; 2) patterns of weak leadership within the limbo state; 3) patterns of settlers immigrating to the occupied limbo state resulting in diverse religious and ethnic groups with their own agenda of cultural preservation with resulting partition of the land leading to incomplete or denied self-rule as well as sectarian conflicts; and 4) patterns of complex and paradoxical responses expressed by members of the indigenous population. Northern Ireland and Jammu-and-Kashmir are model examples of limbo states meeting conditions established in the four explanatory concepts. In addition to validating the limbo state model, the explanatory concepts provide explanations for three concerns regarding limbo states specifically and failed states in general. These concerns are : 1) why these limbo states are not able to become typical modern nation-states with a defined border wherein exists a functioning government within the state approved by the indigenous population and providing for its inhabitants a personal, incorruptible security network as well as border security, political stability and transparency, economic development, cultural independence, supportive and continuously updated infrastructure, and a judicial system based on rule of law maintaining order effectively; also, 2) how state-society relations impact development of sovereign authority for the occupied state; and 3) how state-international system relations undermine state sovereignty. The final task offered in the last chapter of this study is speculation on current and future usefulness of the limbo state model.
Joel Wolfe, PhD (Committee Chair)
Laura Jenkins, PhD (Committee Member)
Dinshaw Mistry, PhD (Committee Member)
421 p.
Minority and Ethnic Groups; Political Science
Northern Ireland; Jammu-and-Kashmir; conflicts; failed states

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  • Vasi, L. (2009). Post-Partition Limbo States: Failed State Formation and Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Jammu-and-Kashmir [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242067824

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Vasi, Lillian. Post-Partition Limbo States: Failed State Formation and Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Jammu-and-Kashmir. 2009. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242067824.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Vasi, Lillian. "Post-Partition Limbo States: Failed State Formation and Conflicts in Northern Ireland and Jammu-and-Kashmir." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1242067824

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