Worst of the worst : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / Robert I. Rotberg, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rotberg, Robert I.

World Peace Foundation.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political persecution.

Human rights.

Despotism.

World politics--1989-.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611029685

9781281029683

1281029688

9780815775645

0815775644

OCLC:

780140715