title: Mechanisms of State Disintegration. A Global Analysis
abstract: As the events of the 'Arab Spring' and the Ukrainian crisis have shown, the state disintegration is a critical phenomenon for the entire World System and geopolitical balance. An increasingly accelerating globalization will inevitably lead to new state disintegrations and therefore, the study of the regularities of this process is an urgent task. The article attempts to outline some patterns of state disintegration in the past and present. The main emphasis of the research is put on the study of
journal: Journal of Globalization Studies