State failure and state weakness in a time of terror / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass, : World Peace Foundation; Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, 2003; ©2003
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) : maps
• Disciplina: 320/.01/1
• Soggetto topico: Legitimacy of governments - Developing countries; Political stability - Developing countries; World politics - 1989-
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Politics and government
• Altri autori: RotbergRobert I
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators -- Part One: Cases of Failure and Collapse -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction -- Sierra Leone: Warfare in a Post-State Society -- The Sudan: A Successfully Failed State -- Somalia: Can A Collapsed State Reconstitute Itself? -- Part Two: Dangerously Weak -- Colombia: Lawlessness, Drug Traficking, and Carving Up the State -- Indonesia: The Erosion of State Capacity -- Sri Lanka: A Fragmented State -- Tajikistan: Regionalism and Weakness -- Part Three: Safely Weak -- Fiji: Divided and Weak -- Haiti: A Case of Endemic Weakness -- Lebanon: Failure, Collapse, and Resuscitation -- Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.
• Sommario/riassunto: A Brookings Institution Press and World Peace Foundation publication The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failure had a primarily humanitarian dimension, with fewer implications for peace and security. Now nation-states that fail, or may do so, pose dangers to themselves, to their neighbors, and to people around the globe: preventing their failure, and reviving those that do fail, has become a strategic as well as a moral imperative. State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror develops an innovative theory of state failure that classifies and categorizes states along a continuum from weak to failed to collapsed. By understanding the mechanisms and identifying the tell-tale indicators of state failure, it is possible to develop strategies to arrest the fatal slide from weakness to collapse. This state failure paradigm is illustrated through detailed case studies of states that have failed and collapsed (the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Somalia), states that are dangerously weak (Colombia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan), and states that are weak but safe (Fiji, Haiti, Lebanon).
• Titolo autorizzato: State failure and state weakness in a time of terror
• ISBN: 0-8157-7572-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910828502003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II