This study examines the concept of " Failed State " presently in vogue, and how this term has bee... more This study examines the concept of " Failed State " presently in vogue, and how this term has been wrongly used in the news media, the case of Pakistan (since 2005). Edward Newman categorized three types of opinion regarding the concept of failed state among scholars, first one is in the favour and call it a useful, second view considers its a weak and not systematically reliable and last one is highly against this term and calls it an ethnocentric and hegemonic political agenda. This study analyses the case of Pakistan under this context and finding of the study endorses the argument of those scholars, who see the term failed state as an ethnocentric and hegemonic political agenda. This study critically analyses the discourses of news reports and think tanks indexes that labelled Pakistan a failed state. This paper argues that this term has been overlooked and left to the savants for debate. The labelling of failed state by the news media produces drastic repercussions for the labelled nations, hence needs thorough investigation.
This study examines the concept of " Failed State " presently in vogue, and how this term has bee... more This study examines the concept of " Failed State " presently in vogue, and how this term has been wrongly used in the news media, the case of Pakistan (since 2005). Edward Newman categorized three types of opinion regarding the concept of failed state among scholars, first one is in the favour and call it a useful, second view considers its a weak and not systematically reliable and last one is highly against this term and calls it an ethnocentric and hegemonic political agenda. This study analyses the case of Pakistan under this context and finding of the study endorses the argument of those scholars, who see the term failed state as an ethnocentric and hegemonic political agenda. This study critically analyses the discourses of news reports and think tanks indexes that labelled Pakistan a failed state. This paper argues that this term has been overlooked and left to the savants for debate. The labelling of failed state by the news media produces drastic repercussions for the labelled nations, hence needs thorough investigation.
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