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2. Sea Level Rise and Climate Statelessness: From 'Too Little, Too Late' to Context-Based Relevance
- Author:
- Michel Rouleau-Dick
- Publication Date:
- 12-2021
- Content Type:
- Journal Article
- Journal:
- Statelessness & Citizenship Review
- Institution:
- Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness, Melbourne Law School
- Abstract:
- Several low-lying island states currently risk the loss of their entire territory before the end of the century. Combined with the inadequacy of the existing framework of international refugee law to address the challenges faced by those displaced, this situation has made the law on statelessness an interesting candidate for securing an alternative path to obtaining a legal status in a post-relocation context. However, while several authors have examined this possibility, the majority conclude that it fails in its putative task by providing too little, and by coming into play too late to be of any significant relevance to the situation of environmentally displaced persons in low-lying island states. This article challenges this narrative by re-examining the relevance of the law on statelessness along with the context within which it might have to play a role.
- Topic:
- Climate Change, Displacement, Statehood, Statelessness, Legal Status, and Climate Refugees
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus and Island States
3. nternational Organizations' Modes of Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood: The Case of Food Security
- Author:
- Leon Schettler, Angela Heucher, and Andrea Liese
- Publication Date:
- 03-2018
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
- Abstract:
- International organizations (IOs) are confronted with a twin challenge in areas of limited statehood (ALS). On the one hand, IOs are governmental organizations qua mandate. Their usual approach – providing a range of services to their members and working with or for a given state – may, however, either be blocked or prove unsustainable in ALS. On the other, ALS present numerous challenges to IO governance, ranging from insecurity to a lack of meta-governance. Yet, we know surprisingly little about how IOs operate in these contexts, and, in particular, which modes of governance they choose for which purposes. How can IOs attain the twin objectives of acting in accordance with their mandate, which gives primacy to governments, and responding to ALS-specific challenges in order to effectively provide food security? This paper addresses IOs’ choice of distinct modes of governance, ranging from bargaining to persuasion. It investigates how different types of IOs use and combine these modes in light of varying ALS-challenges. The empirical observations presented in this paper stem from interviews with IOs (ECHO, FAO, IDB, WFP, and the World Bank) at the level of headquarters and country offices (in Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Haiti, Niger, and Sierra Leone), as well as from organizational documents.
- Topic:
- Food, Governance, Food Security, NGOs, and Statehood
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
4. Measuring Statehood on a Sub-National Level: A Dialogue among Methods
- Author:
- Luisa Linke-Behrens, Angela Heucher, and Leon Schettler
- Publication Date:
- 02-2017
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
- Abstract:
- Statehood can vary greatly within and across countries. For this reason, we find it problematic that the national level most often serves as the main unit of analysis when measuring statehood, thereby neglecting the sub-national level. To address this shortcoming, the authors of this working paper present five options for measuring statehood on a sub-national level, asking: What are the advantages and disadvantages of different methods to measuring and comparing statehood on a sub-national level? All contributions proceed in three steps, each discussing i) data sources, as well as methods for data collection and analysis, ii) illustrative examples, and iii) the advantages and challenges to each respective approach. While there is no silver bullet for collecting and analyzing data on statehood, we find that a combination of different methods is particularly promising for achieving more fine-grained results and a more complete picture of statehood on the subnational level.
- Topic:
- Nationalism, Statehood, Subnationalism, and Centralization
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
5. External Authority - Compensation for Limited Statehood in the Provision of Collective Goods?
- Author:
- Luisa Linke-Behrens and Lisa van Hoof-Maurer
- Publication Date:
- 07-2016
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
- Abstract:
- The vast majority of areas of limited statehood are subject to the authority of external actors, be it the IMF or regional organizations. These actors typically provide authority structures – institutions and rules – that are complementary or alternative to the state’s domestic authority structures. It is reasonable to assume that these external actors may either deliver collective goods directly, or the authority structures provided by them might work indirectly to that effect. In this paper, we systematically investigate whether external authority compensates for limited statehood with regard to collective goods provision. Our analysis shows that this is not the case. On the contrary, in fragile states with extremely limited or even absent statehood, the presence of external authority in domestic authority structures seems to have the opposite effect and is associated with poor collective goods provision.
- Topic:
- Fragile States, Political structure, Statehood, and Authority
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
6. Dysfunctional Institutions, Social Trust, and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
- Author:
- Thomas Risse and Tanja A. Börzel
- Publication Date:
- 07-2015
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
- Abstract:
- Areas of limited statehood where the state is absent or dysfunctional are rarely ungoverned or ungovernable spaces. The provision of rules and regulations as well as of public goods and services – governance – does not necessarily depend on the existence of functioning state institutions. How can this be explained? This article makes two claims. First, we identify functional equivalents to state institutions that fail to govern hierarchically. Second, we focus on informal institutions based on social trust that are endogenous to areas of limited statehood. Personalized social trust among community members enables actors to overcome collective action problems, enhancing the legitimacy of governance actors. The main challenge in areas of limited statehood, which are often characterized by social heterogeneity and deep social and cultural cleavages (particularly in post-conflict societies), is to move from personalized to generalized trust in “imagined communities” despite dysfunctional state institutions. We argue that generalized trust in areas of limited statehood crucially depends on inclusive social identities as an enabling condition for effective and legitimate governance.
- Topic:
- Governance, Community, Statehood, and Social Identities
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus
7. On the Social Conditions of Governance: Social Capital and Governance in Areas of Limited Statehood
- Author:
- Johannes Kode
- Publication Date:
- 09-2013
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 700
- Abstract:
- Unlike what Hobbesian theories argue, the provision of governance is not necessarily undermined by a lack of statehood. Empirical findings show that – contrary to many voices in current debates on weak, failing, or failed states – various (non-state) actors provide governance even when statehood is limited. This paper addresses the puzzle of how to account for cases where governance exists although the state cannot or does not provide it. Transferring insights from political sociology to the analysis of such “gov- ernance without the state,” the paper holds that the way societies manage their affairs critically depends on social conditions, which are captured here following social capital theory. Working toward a political sociology of “governance without a state,” this paper links social capital, resulting in interpersonal trust, to social coordination underlying the provision of governance. In this context, governance is interpreted as a collective action game (“governance game”), in which socially embedded (collective) actors are seen as players whose behavior (in particular their decisions to cooperate) depends critically on their social capital endowments. The main argument is that specific types of social capital endowments facilitate – and, thus, explain – specific modes of social coordination in areas of limited statehood. Explorative in nature, con- ceptual and theoretical arguments will be developed that offer new perspectives to explain the variance and mechanisms of governance outside the OECD world.
- Topic:
- Non State Actors, Governance, Social Capital, and Statehood
- Political Geography:
- Global Focus