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State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror

By Robert I. Rotberg

1 Ratings • 5.0 of 5

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About the book

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 ...Show more

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ISBN

9780815775737

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror

Format

Paperback

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