‘Fragile States’: introducing a political concept

Political Protest in Fragile States

Since the mid-seventies, an extensive body of literature has analyzed political activism in Western democracies, utilizing the methods of survey research, historical comparisons, and events analysis to understand the ways that people participate in the public sphere, the processes that lead them to do so, and the consequences of these acts. By contrast, far less has been established about the c...

Fragile States

Fragile States Fragile States T UNU-WIDER PROJECT ON “FRAGILITY AND development’’ began with the premise that dealing simultaneously with household vulnerability and state fragility is probably one of the most urgent development challenges of our time. Consequently, the project explored the dimensions of household vulnerability and state fragility in development. This research brief is about th...

Introducing the VirtualMedia Concept

In this paper, we give a short overview of our current research on abstractions and concepts needed to achieve the long-term objective of realizing a genuine universal media server. Such a media server is supposed to support a wide range of non-trivial multimedia applications in an approximately optimal manner. Focusing on the handling of raw media data, we argue that the traditional data indep...

Introducing Geodesign: The Concept

The Global City: introducing a Concept

EACH PHASE IN THE LONG history ofthe world economy raises specific questions about the particular conditions that make it possible. One ofthe key properties ofthe current phase is the ascendance of information technologies and the associated increase in the mobility and liquidity of capital. There have long been cross-border economic processes—flows of capital, labor, goods, raw materials, tour...