000001244 001__ 1244 000001244 005__ 20250310143706.0 000001244 037__ $$aBOOK 000001244 090__ $$aHEITH 604 000001244 245__ $$aState collapse and the international system$$bimplosion of government and the international legal order from the French Revolution to the disintegration of Somalia 000001244 260__ $$aGenève$$bInstitut universitaire de hautes études internationales$$c2000 000001244 269__ $$a2000 000001244 300__ $$a343 p. 000001244 336__ $$aPhD Theses 000001244 508__ $$aDirecteur de thèse: Professeur Georges Abi-Saab 000001244 520__ $$aThe 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$$9catpub00$$9geudbu/08.2000 000001244 700__ $$aYannis, Alexandros 000001244 901__ $$uDR 000001244 909CO $$ooai:repository.graduateinstitute.ch:1244$$pGLOBAL_SET 000001244 980__ $$aDORI