United States Vs Weak States Essay

demand for luxuries in sedentary society carries within it the germs of fragmentation, decay and, ultimately, collapse” (Alatas, 2017).

In modern history during the 1990s following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, a strong emphasis has been emerged to consider classification of states with respect to various levels of their socio-economic and political progress, in which states are being categorized on a number of socio-economic and political variables into different groups such as strong, weak, failed and collapsed (Massa, 2008). Weak state stand in sharp contrast to the notion of strong state, in which the former has been viewed as being ineffective to provide what Rotberg and several political scientists call ‘political goods’, which

Weak state is characterized by absence of order, security, lack of infrastructure, broken laws. But this does not mean the complete absence of any exiting legal system or the complete disappearance of political sovereignty. For Reno (2001), weak state may still have juridical sovereignty and recognizable presence within the international community. In Yemen, and despite the enormously weakening of state institutions following the Yemeni uprisings, legal and educational systems are still operating and Yemenis are still capable of travelling, obtaining legal documents, and enrolling in schools. That being said, the theoretical debate on weak state is not certainly settled as there are still moral questions need to be answered such as to what extent is weak state could also be a direct result of strong state military intervention and economic

Although marriage in such very young age is uncommon in most Yemeni urban centers, in remote rural areas where effective and efficient state institutions are almost absent, many young girls get married when they are under 16 years old. Moreover, because of weak state institutions, there are many invisible women who found themselves imprisoned often with their own children , whether for legitimate or illegitimate reasons, found themselves living under “substandard conditions, such as a lack of food, health care, basic hygiene facilities, beds, blankets, ventilation, and water supplies” (UN, 2010). Another area where women suffered also the most in Yemen is the area of health care. DeJong and her colleagues argued that in several public as well as private health centers and facilities ‘was a shortage of blood, life-saving equipment and medication.”( DeJong, Bahubaishi, & Attal,