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Record W7128511766 · doi:10.64903/1480-6800-25.1.37

International Law and the Concept of Failed States

2022· article· W7128511766 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Mahir Al Banna

Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2022
Typearticle
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicPost-Soviet Geopolitical Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsInternational lawInternational communityState (computer science)Position (finance)International relationsPoliticsSubject (documents)State responsibilityCustomary international law

Abstract

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This study will focus on the challenges that international law must face to identify and rebuild states that are considered as failed. How can failed states be restored to the status of successful ones, which is a misguided approach when it is known that they never had success? For international law, indicators should be available to identify failures and to identify states threatened by them. The UN has acquired a certain experience in this matter but lacks proper means for dealing with such challenges. It was able to define integrated strategies of nation- building and state-building, with the help of regional organizations, specialized institutions, NGOs, and the states concerned. This essay raises the question of the position of international law regarding the existence of this concept. It adopts an analysis that assesses the legal implications of failed states, for the state itself and for the international community as well. As a result, the concept of failed states is not accepted by all scholars in international law. For some authors it is inappropriate, harmful; it is damaging for the image of the state as a member of international community which is composed of a territory, population, and a political authority and enjoys sovereignty. To avoid legal implications, some scholars argue that it is better to use other terms, such as ‘fragile state’, ‘state in crisis’ and ‘failed government’ to designate this highly important subject in international law.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.879
Threshold uncertainty score0.996

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.006
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.263
Teacher spread0.255 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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