Collapsed States and International Order in Contemprary World: The Case of Somalia

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25380186
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: International relations
• Research Institution: The University of Tokyo
• Principal Investigator: ENDO Mitsugi 東京大学, 総合文化研究科, 教授 (70251311)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 国際秩序 / 崩壊国家 / アフリカ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, I utilize the ceoveptulization developed by Stephen Krasner on several dimensions of "sovereignty." I define "state" as political entities enjoying international legal, and Westphalian/Vatellian, sovereignty. Also "governmnet" can be defined as those materializing domestic sovereignty. Collapsed states, therefore, can be defined by "state" without "government." in this research. I developed this typology from static to more dynamic model to describe international society from a point of view of a variety of entitiies composed of defferent levels of "state" as well as those of "governmnet" in contemporary world.
Against this framework, I also analyzed the political situation of Somalia by refering to south-central somalia, Somaliland and Puntland in regional term. In addition, the topics of islamists, piracy as well as diaspora were analyzed to understand Somalia in more conprehensive manner.

Free Research Field

国際関係論