MILITARY INTERVENTION AS MEANS TO ESTABLISHING EFFECTIVE MODEL OF STATE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2016.127.1.57-67Abstract
In the context of failed states, it is considered that intervention by the international community can restore state apparatus proper functioning and ensure changes that would have been unlikely without external interference. However, international political practice shows that military interventions in failed states do not necessarily achieve the desired result – reconstruction of the state. Intervention of ambition to bring a speedy resolution of failed states problems often ignore the complex and contentious political issues in situations that accompany the process of state power erosion. Short-sighted and ill-informed foreign military intervention could materialise power imbalances and promote the escalation of the conflict in the target country. Moreover, the failure of international efforts to rebuild public administration in an atmosphere of overall destabilisation, aggravated by the external military intervention, may cause a new round of political struggle for the monopoly of violence and deepen the social and political chaos. However, in situations of rapid deterioration in internal and regional security, provoked by state failure, military intervention may be an effective tool. Its main advantage compared to
other strategies is the promptness of response and speeding up of social and political change.
Key words: military intervention, intrastate conflict, state erosion, international security, failed state.
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