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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784491703321

Titolo

Worst of the worst [[electronic resource] ] : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : World Peace Foundation

Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-02968-8

9786611029685

0-8157-7564-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RotbergRobert I

Disciplina

323.4/9

Soggetti

Political persecution

Human rights

Despotism

World politics - 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Repressive, aggressive, and rogue nation-states : how odious, how dangerous? / Robert I. Rotberg -- Human rights rogues : aggressive, dangerous, or both? / Mary Caprioli and Peter F. Trumbore -- Running the numbers : a comparative perspective / Yi Feng and Saumik Paul -- North Korea : the tyranny of deprivation / Marcus Noland -- Turkmenistan under Niyazov and Berdymukhammedov / Gregory Gleason -- Burma : poster child for entrenched repression / Priscilla A. Clapp -- Winning the African prize for repression : Zimbabwe / Robert I. Rotberg -- Understanding repression in Belarus / Margarita M. Balmaceda -- Equatorial Guinea and Togo : what price repression? / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.

Sommario/riassunto

"Identifies and characterizes the most repressive states and singles out which are aggressive. Defines the actions constituting repression and proposes a method of measuring human rights violations, presenting an index of nation-state repressiveness. Offers a way to decide which



repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention"--Provided by publisher.