When States Fail
Causes and Consequences
$71.99
- Paperback
352 pages
- Release Date
22 February 2004
Summary
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 why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and categorizes strong, weak, failing, and collapsed nation-states according to political, social, …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691116723 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0691116725 |
| Author: | Robert I. Rotberg |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 352 |
| Release Date: | 22 February 2004 |
| Weight: | 482g |
| Dimensions: | 235mm x 152mm |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
“Rotberg has collected a cadre of renowned scholars who flesh out the political, economic, and social reasons for state failure and provide prescriptions for both prevention and postfailure resuscitation.”–Cameron M. Otopalik, Perspectives on Political Science
About The Author
Robert I. Rotberg
Robert I. Rotberg is Director of the Kennedy School of Government’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and President of the World Peace Foundation. He is the author of Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa and other books, and the editor of State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror, Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions (Princeton), and others.
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