서강대학교

초록/요약

The US invasion of Iraq was executed in the hopes of successfully embedding democracy with rebuilding and strengthening the nation’s statehood. But the rapid removal of the Iraqi autocrat Saddam Hussein and his long time ruling party called the Baath Party brought about a power vacuum along with political chaos in Baghdad. This implies that the political leverage of a state leader is absolute and stupendous in a nondemocratic state. Depending heavily upon the central authority, states can either flourish or fail. By focusing more upon creation of state failure through a stronger external factor as the most effective determinant over the existing theories, this thesis emphasizes impact of an unreasonable state intervention prior to state failure and its implication. The existing literature on state failure concentrates on the region of sub-Saharan Africa by focusing on the post colonial state leaders who were blinded by selfish interests and desires. These leaders in turn eventually provoked citizens into violent opposing forces against the current regimes. However Saddam Hussein of Iraq counterbalanced his opponents through overwhelmingly powerful authoritarian rule despite severe internal conflicts. By highlighting the serious implications of state failure such as international terrorism and the corresponding refugee crisis, the findings in this research caution that the international community must make more stringent efforts in reducing the number of failed states in order to solidify human security around the entire globe.