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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rotberg, Robert I.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Legitimacy of governments--Developing countries.

Legitimacy of governments.

Political stability--Developing countries.

Political stability.

Developing countries--Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Politics and government.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

viii, 354 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2003]

Summary:

The threat of terror, most recently flaring 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).

Contents:

1. Failed States, Collapsed States, Weak States: Causes and Indicators / Robert I. Rotberg 1

Part 1. Cases of Failure and Collapse

2. The Democratic Republic of the Congo: From Failure to Potential Reconstruction / Rene Lemarchand 29

3. Sierra Leone: Warfare in a Post-State Society / William Reno 71

4. The Sudan: A Successfully Failed State / Gerard Prunier, Rachel Gisselquist 101

5. Somalia: Can a Collapsed State Reconstitute Itself? / Walter S. Clarke, Robert Gosende 129

Part 2. Dangerously Weak

6. Colombia: Lawlessness, Drug Trafficking, and Carving Up the State / Harvey F. Kline 161

7. Indonesia: The Erosion of State Capacity / Michael Malley 183

8. Sri Lanka: A Fragmented State / Erin K. Jenne 219

9. Tajikistan: Regionalism and Weakness / Nasrin Dadmehr 245

Part 3. Safely Weak

10. Fiji: Divided and Weak / Stephanie Lawson 265

11. Haiti: A Case of Endemic Weakness / Marlye Gelin-Adams, David M. Malone 287

12. Lebanon: Failure, Collapse, and Resuscitation / Oren Barak 305.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0815775741

0815775733

OCLC:

50768594