Abstract
The “failed/fragile/collapsed state” refers to state authority's complete or partial collapse, such as Somalia and Bosnia. According to Fragile States Index 2020 annual report, approximately 116 countries among 178 countries were in warning or alerting state quo, which hurts three-quarters of the world's population. A systematic scientometric interpretation of failed/fragile/collapsed state analysis would be helpful but is presently absent in the academic community. This review makes three donations by evaluating the 2,417 articles published in the Web of Science (WoS) Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) Collection between 1990 and 2020. First, it provides a unique prospect in failed/fragile/collapsed state studies through a detailed, systematic, and objective analysis. Second, the author has quantitatively tracked the progression of failed/fragile/collapsed state studies from 1990 to 2020. Finally, the author associated evolutionary trajectory analysis with future research directions, offering new pathways for failed/fragile/collapsed state studies. It also helps novice “failed/fragile/collapsed state” researchers and veteran scholars identify future research trends.
Highlights
The “failed/fragile/collapsed state” refers to state authority’s complete or partial collapse, such as Somalia and Bosnia (King and Zeng, 2001)
According to Fragile States Index 2020 annual report delivered by the Fund for Peace (Messner de Latour, 2020), ∼116 countries among 178 countries are in warning or alerting state quo, which hurts three-quarters of the world’s population
The structures created by The operation interface of CiteSpace 5.7.R4 can be seen in Figure S2 in the Supplementary Material
Summary
The “failed/fragile/collapsed state” refers to state authority’s complete or partial collapse, such as Somalia and Bosnia (King and Zeng, 2001). A growing number of studies on failed/fragile/collapsed states have been published, as seen in the following Figure 4. Brooks (2005) sought to challenge a global order and policy theoretical hypothesis, contending that the remaining state-based international framework failed to promote adequate responses to nation failure. Di John (2010) provided a crucial analysis of later research that had sought to interpret what a “failed state” is and revealed why such states emerged. Nay (2013) disputed that the analytical underpinning of the state “fragility” and “failure” and concluded that the theories of “failed and fragile states” are deceptive, shallow, as well as policy-aligned tags that are volatile. Ferreira (2017) reviewed existing approaches to operationalize the failed/fragile/collapsed state concept
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