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When States Fail : Causes and Consequences /

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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Otros Autores: Rotberg, Robert I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2004.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The failure and collapse of nation-states: breakdown, prevention, and repair / Robert I. Rotberg
  • PART ONE: THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FAILURE
  • Domestic anarchy, security dilemmas, and violent predation: causes of failure / Nelson Ksfir
  • The global-local politics of state decay / Christopher Clapham
  • The economic correlates of state failure: taxes, foreign aid, and policies / Nicolas van de Walle
  • The deadly connection: paramilitary bands, small arms diffusion, and state failure / Michael T. Klare
  • Preventing state failure / David Carment
  • PART TWO: POST-FAILURE RESUSCITATION OF NATION-STATES
  • Forming states after failure / Jens Meierhenrich
  • Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration: lessons and liabilities in reconstruction / Nat J. Colletta, Markus Kostner, Ingo Wiederhofer
  • Establishing the rule of law / Susan Rose-Ackerman
  • Building effective trust in the aftermath of severe conflict / Jennifer A. Widner
  • Civil society and the reconstruction of failed states / Daniel N. Posner
  • Restoring economic functioning in failed states / Donald R. Snodgrass
  • Transforming the institutions of war: postconflict elections and the reconstruction of failed states / Terrence Lyons
  • Let them fail: state failure in theory and practice: implications for policy / Jeffrey Herbst.