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

Published:: Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2003]
Copyright Date:: ©2003
Physical Description:: viii, 354 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Rotberg, Robert I.

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Contents:

Failed states, collapsed states, weak states : causes and indicators / Robert I. Rotberg -- The Democratic Republic of the Congo : from failure to potential reconstruction / René Lemarchand -- Sierra Leone : warfare in a post-state society / William Reno -- The Sudan : a successfully failed state / Gérard Prunier and Rachel Gisselquist -- Somalia : can a collapsed state reconstitute itself? / Walter S. Clarke and Robert Gosende -- Columbia : lawlessness, drug trafficking, and carving up the state / Harvey F. Kline -- Indonesia : the erosion of state capacity / Michael Malley -- Sri Lanka : a fragmented state / Erin K. Jenne -- Tajikistan : regionalism and weakness / Nasrin Dadmehr -- Fiji : divided and weak / Stephanie Lawson -- Haiti : a case of endemic weakness -- Marlye Gélin-Adams and David M. Malone -- Lebanon : failure, collapse, and resuscitation / Oren Barak.

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0815775741 (cloth : alk. paper)
0815775733 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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