When States Fail : : Causes and Consequences /

When States Fail : : Causes and Consequences / / ed. by Robert I. Rotberg.

Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Carment, David,
Clapham, Christopher,
Colletta, Nat J.,
Herbst, Jeffrey,
Kasfir, Nelson,
Klare, Michael T.,
Kostner, Markus,
Lyons, Terrence,
Meierhenrich, Jens,
Posner, Daniel N.,
Rose-Ackerman, Susan,
Rotberg, Robert I.,
Snodgrass, Donald R.,
Walle, Nicolas van de,
Widner, Jennifer A.,
Wiederhofer, Ingo,
HerausgeberIn:
Rotberg, Robert I.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
©2004
Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 1 line illus. 8 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Maps
  • Preface
  • One. The Failure and Collapse of Nation-States: Breakdown, Prevention, and Repair
  • PART ONE: THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FAILURE
  • Two. Domestic Anarchy, Security Dilemmas, and Violent Predation: Causes of Failure
  • Three. The Global-Local Politics of State Decay
  • Four. The Economic Correlates of State Failure: Taxes, Foreign Aid, and Policies
  • Five. The Deadly Connection: Paramilitary Bands, Small Arms Diffusion, and State Failure
  • Six. Preventing State Failure
  • PART TWO: POST-FAILURE RESUSCITATION OF NATION-STATES
  • Seven. Forming States after Failure
  • Eight. Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Lessons and Liabilities in Reconstruction
  • Nine. Establishing the Rule of Law
  • Ten. Building Effective Trust in the Aftermath of Severe Conflict
  • Eleven. Civil Society and the Reconstruction of Failed States
  • Twelve. Restoring Economic Functioning in Failed States
  • Thirteen. Transforming the Institutions of War: Postconflict Elections and the Reconstruction of Failed States
  • Fourteen. Let Them Fail: State Failure in Theory and Practice: Implications for Policy
  • Contributors
  • Index

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