Worst of the worst [[electronic resource] ] : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor
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| Titolo: |
Worst of the worst [[electronic resource] ] : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / / Robert I. Rotberg, editor
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| 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- | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Altri autori: |
RotbergRobert I
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| 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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.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.: | 9910458156203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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