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When states fail : causes and consequences / Robert I. Rotberg, ed.

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Publisher: Princeton, NJ [u.a.] : Princeton University Press, c 2004Description: X, 335 S. : Kt. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0691116717
  • 0691116725
  • 9780691116723
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Erscheint auch als: When States Fail. Online-Ausgabe. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004 | Erscheint auch als: When states fail. Online-Ausgabe. Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 2004. 1 Online-Ressource (x, 335 pages)DDC classification:
  • 320/.01/1 21
  • 320.011
RVK: RVK: MD 8250 | MG 10098 | NQ 5830 | MD 4850 | MH 10098LOC classification:
  • JF60
Contents:
The failure and collapse of nation-states: breakdown, prevention, and repair / Robert I. Rotberg
PART ONE: THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FAILURE ; Domestic anarchy, security dilemmas, and violent predation: causes of failure / Nelson Ksfir
The global-local politics of state decay / Christopher Clapham
The economic correlates of state failure: taxes, foreign aid, and policies / Nicolas van de Walle
The deadly connection: paramilitary bands, small arms diffusion, and state failure / Michael T. Klare
Preventing state failure / David Carment
PART TWO: POST-FAILURE RESUSCITATION OF NATION-STATES ; Forming states after failure / Jens Meierhenrich
Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration: lessons and liabilities in reconstruction / Nat J. Colletta,
Establishing the rule of law / Susan Rose-Ackerman
Building effective trust in the aftermath of severe conflict / Jennifer A. Widner
Civil society and the reconstruction of failed states / Daniel N. Posner
Restoring economic functioning in failed states / Donald R. Snodgrass
Transforming the institutions of war: postconflict elections and the reconstruction of failed states / Terrence Lyons
Let them fail: state failure in theory and practice: implications for policy / Jeffrey Herbst.
Summary: Verlagsinfo: Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and categorizes strong, weak, failing, and collapsed nation-states according to political, social, and economic criteria. And it offers a comprehensive recipe for their reconstruction. This book comprises fourteen essays by leading scholars and practitioners who help structure this disparate field of research, provide useful empirical descriptions, and offer policy recommendations. Robert Rotberg's substantial opening chapter sets out a theory and taxonomy of state failure. It is followed by two sets of chapters, the first on the nature and correlates of failure, the second on methods of preventing state failure and reconstructing those states that do fail. Economic jump-starting, legal refurbishing, elections, the demobilizing of ex-combatants, and civil society are among the many topics discussed.PPN: PPN: 369282221
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