The total collapse of the state marks the final, extreme phase of state failure, and very few states can be described as completely failed or collapsed.
Decolonisation also heralded a phase of state formation, in which newly established African states have endeavoured to instil a sense of national unity in ethnically diverse societies, which often created considerable internal tensions and has regularly erupted in violent conflicts (cf. Davidson, 1992).
Yet some Chinese officials are wary of the potential impact of another phase of state-led industrial development.
Especially during the military dictatorship, in the phase of state-led, condensed economic development, anti-communism served as an important power mechanism to discipline the citizens and mobilize them to achieve the developmental goals set by the state.
The region of Lower Nubia saw one of the earliest phases of state formation in the world: rulers of the A-Group culture who were buried in a cemetery at Qustul, excavated by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago in the 1960s adopted symbols of kingship similar to those of contemporary kings of Egypt of the Naqādah II III period.
Donald C. Haggis, an archaeologist and classics professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said the tablet discovery was "really exciting and important because we don't know much of the dynamics of these palace sites and the early phases of state formation in Greece".
Using the normal state as a benchmark, from fault 1 to fault 3, the phase distribution of the bispectrum became gradually complicated, and from fault 3 to fault 5, the phase distribution of state varied conversely.
Two people who lost relatives in the Oklahoma City bombing testified Tuesday on behalf of Terry Nichols, as closing arguments ended in the penalty phase of his state murder trial.
A16 Kin of Bomb Victims Testify Two people who lost relatives in the Oklahoma City bombing testified on behalf of Terry Nichols, as closing arguments ended in the penalty phase of his state murder trial.
Our analysis indicates that the phase of welfare state development matters a lot.
The school food plan is filled with unexpected ironies, the most striking that it is a Conservative education secretary, Michael Gove, who will oversee the final phase of the state-led reconstruction of the school dinner system decimated so comprehensively by Mrs Thatcher in the 1980s.
