TY - GEN AB - The thesis examines the phenomenon of state collapse and its normative and policy implications for the international system and international security. It contemplates the impact of state collapse on the concepts of government, statehood and sovereignty as well as on the role of non-state actors in internal conflicts and analyses the implications of implosion of government on the architecture and functioning of the international system. A major conclusion is that the phenomenon of state collapse reveals the need for greater development of the rules, procedures and institutions of the international political and legal system towards the creation of a more sophisticated international system, which can balance effectively the demands for a more centralised and supranational structure with the requirements for a more flexible and transnational functioning of the international system AU - Yannis, Alexandros CN - HEITH 604 CY - Genève DA - 2000 DA - 2000 ID - 1244 N2 - The thesis examines the phenomenon of state collapse and its normative and policy implications for the international system and international security. It contemplates the impact of state collapse on the concepts of government, statehood and sovereignty as well as on the role of non-state actors in internal conflicts and analyses the implications of implosion of government on the architecture and functioning of the international system. A major conclusion is that the phenomenon of state collapse reveals the need for greater development of the rules, procedures and institutions of the international political and legal system towards the creation of a more sophisticated international system, which can balance effectively the demands for a more centralised and supranational structure with the requirements for a more flexible and transnational functioning of the international system PB - Institut universitaire de hautes études internationales PP - Genève PY - 2000 PY - 2000 T1 - State collapse and the international systemimplosion of government and the international legal order from the French Revolution to the disintegration of Somalia TI - State collapse and the international systemimplosion of government and the international legal order from the French Revolution to the disintegration of Somalia Y1 - 2000 ER -