Contemporary Security Studies Alan Collins

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Contemporary Security StudiesAlan Collins

• Deepening and Broadening Security
• Regime Security

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Introduction

• Weak states face a unique set of security
  challenges that originate primarily from internal
  sources
• Orthodox approaches to national security are
  severely limited

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Regime Security

• The Weak State Insecurity Dilemma

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The Weak State Insecurity Dilemma
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The Weak State Insecurity Dilemma

• The Determinants of a Weak State

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Threats to Weak StatesInternal Threats
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Threats to Weak StatesExternal Threats
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The Weak State Insecurity Dilemma
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Regime Security

• Security Strategies in Weak States

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Security Strategies in Weak States
Elite Strategies

• Repression
• Military expansion
• Employment of mercenaries
• Divide and rule
• Patronage politics

• Undermining state institutions
• Elite accommodation
• Identity politics
• Democratic manipulation

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Security Strategies in Weak States

• External Security Strategies

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Security Strategy Outcomes
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Regime Security

• Explaining Insecurity Future Prospects

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Explaining Insecurity in Weak States
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Warlord Politics