Weak links : fragile states, global threats, and international security / Stewart Patrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Patrick, Stewart.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Security, International.

Political stability.

Failed states.

World politics--2005-2015.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 342 p. ) ill., maps

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Weak Links will force policymakers to rethink what they assume about state failure and transnational insecurity.

Conventional wisdom holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats. After all, the 9/11 attacks originated in an impoverished, war-ravaged country, and transnational crime appears to flourish in weakly governed states. However, our assumptions about the threats posed by failing states are based on anecdotal arguments, not on a systematic analysis of the connections between state failure and transnational security threats. Analyzing terrorism, transnational crime, WMDs, pandemic diseases, and energy insecurity, Stewart Patrick shows that while some global threats do emerge in fragile states, most of their weaknesses create misery only for their own citizenry. Moreover, many threats originate farther up the chain, in wealthier and more stable countries like Russia and Venezuela. Weak Links will force policymakers to rethink what they assume about state failure and transnational insecurity.

Contents:

Left behind : understanding state fragility

Transnational terrorism

Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

Transnational crime

Energy security

Infectious disease.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-283-42341-3

9786613423412

0-19-987695-9

OCLC:

774392870