Free Download Melissa M. Lee Desfor, "Crippling Leviathan: How Foreign Subversion Weakens the State"
English | ISBN: 150174836X | 2020 | 264 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship―which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures―overlooked the crucial role that international politics play. In this shrewd book, Melissa M. Lee argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less visible and less costly than conventional force, it has insidious effects on governance in the target state.