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Titolo: | Worst of the worst [[electronic resource] ] : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor |
Pubblicazione: | Cambridge, Mass., : World Peace Foundation |
Washington, D.C., : Brookings Institution Press, c2007 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (354 p.) |
Disciplina: | 323.4/9 |
Soggetto topico: | Political persecution |
Human rights | |
Despotism | |
World politics - 1989- | |
Altri autori: | RotbergRobert I |
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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Worst of the worst |
ISBN: | 1-281-02968-8 |
9786611029685 | |
0-8157-7564-4 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784491703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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