- Crisis state
A crisis state is a
state under acute stress, where reigninginstitutions face serious contestation and are potentially unable to manage conflict and shocks. In other words, there is a danger of state collapse. This is not an absolute condition, but a condition at a given point of time, so a state can reach a crisis condition and recover from it, or can remain in crisis over relatively long periods of time, or a crisis state can unravel and collapse.Such a process could lead to the formation of new states, to war and chaos, or to the consolidation of the "
ancien régime ".Specific crises within the subsystems of the state can also exist—for instance, an
economic crisis , apublic health crisis likeHIV/AIDS , apublic order crisis , or aconstitutional crisis —with each on its own not amounting to a generalised condition of a crisis state although a subsystem crisis can be sufficiently severe and/or protracted that it gives rise to the generalised condition of a crisis state.The opposite of a crisis state is a resilient state, where institutions are generally able to cope with conflict, to manage sub-state crises, to respond to contestation, wherever the state sits between fragility and stability.
ee also
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Fragile state
*Failed state
*Crisis States Research Centre External links
* [http://www.crisisstates.com Crisis States Research Centre]
References
*Putzel, J. [http://www.crisisstates.com/download/wp/wp1.2.pdf "War, State Collapse and Reconstruction: Phase 2 of the Crisis States Programme"] , Crisis States Research Centre, Working Paper 1, September 2005
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