This book provides theoretical clarity about the concepts of failed and fragile states, which
have emerged strongly since the 9/11 attacks. Recent contributions often see the fragile …

The simplest thing that can be said about unconventional conflict is that it is not conventional
war. It may include combat operations. It may include multiple conflicting parties. It may have …

A recent article by Michael Mazarr (2014) in the well-‐known Foreign Affairs magazine
argued that the monolithic state failure concept was no longer useful to policy makers …

台湾主要公务员数字学习平台大多是能力培养导向; 能力培养导向式学习有以下缺点: 1)
对于公务员提供公民服务所需之能力, 没有直接帮助; 2) 学习目标与教材之设定是单向 …

This report provides a global fragility ranking for 2011 for a total of 197 countries. The global
rankings indicate that Somalia tops the list of most fragile countries followed closely by …

In this chapter, we expand on the definition of unconventional conflict given in the
introduction (Chapter 1) by enumerating the many types of operations that are contained in …

Events data were analyzed for their predictive potential as indicators of occurrences of
politically violent intra-state crises marked by adverse regime changes, revolutionary wars …