Understanding nation-state stability: Development of a Stress-Coping Framework

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For a variety of reasons weak and failing states lack the requisite capacity and resiliency necessary to achieve stable and durable systems. These states have two essential criteria. First, they fail to deliver essential social political and economic goods to their citizens. Secondly, many have lost their monopoly on violence. Because of their nature, weak and failed states lack the capacity to respond effectively to internal and external challenges. Their ability to cope, respond, and adapt is simply overwhelmed and exhausted by the mismatch between available resources and the problems they face. The resulting vulnerability makes these states increasingly susceptible to the economic, social, and political stressors as well as to enduring cycles of conflict. Nation-state vulnerabilities and resulting conflict cycles, in turn, prompt international responses in the form of developmental aid and peacebuilding efforts to strengthen nations and to restore, and maintain peace, however fragile.