The phrase "accelerated collapse" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing rapid deterioration or failure, often in scientific, engineering, or metaphorical discussions.
Example: "The accelerated collapse of the structure was attributed to the severe weather conditions and poor construction materials."
Alternatives: "rapid failure" or "swift disintegration".
One potentially fruitful avenue has, however, been available at least since the start of the protests -- but its promise has been moving towards the oft-touted "point of no return" each time the regime ratchets up the violence and external actors invest more capital (rhetorical, financial and otherwise) in a policy of accelerated collapse.
And this is without the increasing prospect of regional war (and other unintended consequences) that would likely be engendered by such an "accelerated collapse" approach!
If the Obama administration continues on the path towards an "accelerated collapse" policy, I would submit that we will shortly be facing a definitive, real world test for this battle of approaches.
But forcing an immediate, radical leap to full democracy would likely be too much for either the regime or many Syrians to reasonably swallow without collapsing the whole process (at which point one must again consider the moral and strategic dangers of the "accelerated collapse" policy).
But five years of declining membership is simply not the same thing as a multigenerational (and perhaps accelerating) collapse.
Two, will a warming ocean continue to reach the grounding lines [of the West Antarctic ice sheets] where there is thought to be a feedback that accelerates collapse.
The accelerating collapse of the apartheid system during the 1980s led to the white-dominated government's abandonment of its intention to make the remaining Bantustans independent.
Should Congress fail to pass a reconciled version of those bills, there will be no end in sight to the accelerating collapse of America's private health-insurance model.
"This absolutely falls into the category: What were they thinking?" Bruce MacEwen, a lawyer and president of Adam Smith Esq. and an expert on law firm economics, told me this week, as Dewey suffered a new wave of partner defections and the firm's accelerating collapse appeared unstoppable.
But he added, "The tanks may have accelerated the collapse, but did not cause the collapse".
He undermined Erich Honecker in East Germany and accelerated the collapse of that country.
