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FRAGILE STATE [7 records]

Record 1 2025-01-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Reports
  • Political Science (General)
  • War and Peace (International Law)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
OBS

The Fragile States Index(FSI) produced by The Fund for Peace(FFP), is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are outweighing a states’ capacity to manage those pressures. By highlighting pertinent vulnerabilities which contribute to the risk of state fragility, the Index — and the social science framework and the data analysis tools upon which it is built — makes political risk assessment and early warning of conflict accessible to policy-makers and the public at large.

OBS

The index’s ranks are based on twelve indicators of state vulnerability, grouped by category: cohesion, economic, political, social.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de rapports
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Guerre et paix (Droit international)
  • Coopération et développement économiques

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Títulos de informes
  • Ciencias políticas (Generalidades)
  • Guerra y paz (Derecho internacional)
  • Cooperación y desarrollo económicos
CONT

El índice de fragilidad de los Estados, elaborado por Fund for Peace, consiste en una clasificación anual de 178 países que se basa en el nivel de estabilidad nacional y las presiones a que se enfrentan los países. Incluye indicadores sociales, económicos, políticos y militares.

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Record 2 2011-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • Economic Co-operation and Development
  • National and International Security
DEF

A state with a reduced capability to govern due to institutional weaknesses that constrain the delivery of one or several of the fundamental state functions to its citizens.

CONT

A fragile state is a state significantly susceptible to crisis in one or more of its subsystems.

OBS

Such states are vulnerable to shifts in population support from the state to other entities that are able to provide these functions in place of the state.

OBS

The continuum of state stability is weak, fragile, failing and failed.

OBS

fragile state : term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel and the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Coopération et développement économiques
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
DEF

État dont la capacité de gouverner est réduite à cause de faiblesses institutionnelles qui l'empêchent de s'acquitter d'une ou plusieurs de ses fonctions fondamentales auprès des citoyens.

OBS

Les États fragiles sont vulnérables au transfert du soutien populaire à d'autres entités aptes à remplir ces fonctions à leur place.

OBS

État fragile : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe d’experts en terminologie interarmées et par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la Défense.

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-08-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • National and International Security
DEF

A state that no longer possesses a viable capacity to govern effectively.

OBS

This is normally prompted by a withdrawal of popular support for the state in response to its inability or unwillingness to deliver at least one of its fundamental functions. Elements or remnants of governing institutions usually exist, though they are degraded and no longer functioning coherently.

OBS

The continuum of state stability is weak, fragile, failing and failed.

OBS

failed state: term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel and the Defence Terminology Standardization Board.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale
DEF

État qui n'a plus la capacité viable de gouverner efficacement.

CONT

Au lendemain du 11 septembre 2001, l’attention mondiale s’est tournée vers l’Afghanistan, point chaud de la menace à la sécurité dans le monde. La communauté internationale s’est ralliée pour aider l’État en déroute qu’était l’Afghanistan à se remettre sur pied, de façon à ne plus jamais devenir un foyer de terrorisme mettant en péril la sécurité mondiale.

OBS

Cette situation découle normalement du retrait du soutien populaire à l'État à cause de son incapacité ou de son absence de volonté de s'acquitter d'au moins une de ses fonctions fondamentales. L'État en déroute conserve habituellement des restes d'institutions gouvernementales, mais celles-ci sont dégradées et ne sont plus capables de fonctionner de façon cohérente.

OBS

État en déroute : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe d’experts en terminologie interarmées et par le Conseil de normalisation de terminologie de la Défense.

Spanish

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Record 4 2011-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Peace-Keeping Operations
  • International Relations
DEF

The collective activities undertaken to assist a failed and fragile state in achieving sufficient capability to function as a state.

OBS

stabilization: term and definition officially approved by the Joint Terminology Panel.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Opérations de maintien de la paix
  • Relations internationales
DEF

Ensemble des activités exécutées pour aider un État en déroute et fragile à développer la capacité de fonctionner viablement.

OBS

stabilisation : terme et définition uniformisés par le Groupe d’experts en terminologie interarmées.

Spanish

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Record 5 2011-06-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Political Science (General)
  • National and International Security
DEF

A state that is at risk of becoming a failed state as a result of internal or external pressures such as economic (including resource disparity), security, health and social (including religious and ethnic identity).

OBS

The continuum of state stability is weak, fragile, failing and failed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences politiques (Généralités)
  • Sécurité nationale et internationale

Spanish

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Record 6 1994-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy
  • Military (General)
CONT

Heightened expectations will be difficult to meet, but they have been sustained by recent accomplishments : in the last few days of 1991, the Secretary General helped work out a negotiated solution to twelve years of insurgency in El Salvador; in earlier weeks, one of his representatives obtained the release of Western hostages held in Lebanon for several years; in January 1992, another UN diplomat secured a fragile ceasefire in the Yugoslav civil war and the UN Security Council held its first ever meeting at the Head of State or Government level; and now the UN is deploying some of the largest peacekeeping contingents ever in Yugoslavia and Cambodia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire
  • Militaire (Généralités)
CONT

Le Conseil de sécurité des Nations unies a tenu sa première réunion de chefs d'État ou de gouvernement, et maintenant, l'ONU est en train de déployer les plus gros contingents de maintien de la paix de son histoire en Yougoslavie et au Cambodge.

Spanish

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Record 7 1994-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Military Strategy
  • Military (General)
CONT

... in January 1992, another UN diplomat secured a fragile ceasefire in the Yugoslav civil war and the UN Security Council held its first ever meeting at the Head of State or Government level...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Stratégie militaire
  • Militaire (Généralités)
CONT

En janvier 1992, un autre diplomate de l'ONU a permis d'en arriver à un cessez-le-feu fragile dans la guerre civile en Yougoslavie.

Spanish

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