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.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Developing countries--Politics and government.

Developing countries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 354 pages) : maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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).

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815775720

0815775725

OCLC:

53482721