State Failure and State Weakness in a Time of Terror

by Robert I. Rotberg

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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:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815775733
• ISBN13: 9780815775737
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.2"