FAILED STATES-AN EPIDEMIC OF THE NEAR FUTURE?

Failed states are predictable to a degree but can arise unexpectedly as well. A judge from such a state can adversely affect the court's credibility and standing globally and throw chaos into the cookie jar. I would google "failed states and their global impact" possibly and will advise what I turn up. Definite terms on the ICJ court serve to encourage real scholarship and expertise to enter the arena for the court.
Failed states have a very disintegrating post conflict phase that has a debiltating and destablizing effect globally as excerpted and referenced below and caution should be exercised in including them immediately in the global community or on the court. Mandates and watchful protectorates have been created in the past, with good reason.They are dysfunctional due to organized crime cartels taking advantage of their disshelved status which is why organized crime is rife in these regions, especially the Balkans. The past is a haunting spectre for the global community and is ever present to a degree.

Ed
EXCERPT:
Post-conflict state weakness is a distinct phenomenon. In the Balkans, it manifests itself in several ways: through exclusive identities forged and solidified in the course of the conflict as the main form of legitimation; through interpenetration of state and society which blurs the lines separating public and private; and through the enduring agency of conflict entrepreneurs who know no barrier in finding the ways to maintain the power and influence seized during the course of war.

And yet, western efforts at post-conflict state building in the Balkans, as indeed around the conflict-affected zones the world over, rest on three (wrong) assumptions:

1) that state building starts from scratch disregarding the legacies of the past

2) that inter-ethnic contestation is the major problem of dysfunction of post-conflict states (and not necessarily employment; rule of law; human rights protection...)

3) that there is a separation of public and private interests on which to mount an institution-building project, using the template of a liberal market democracy







http://www.globalpolicy.org/nations-a-states/failed-states/49713.html?ItemId=49713