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Causes and Consequences
Princeton University Press
December 2004
336 pages
ISBN: 0691116725
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Non-Fiction | Historical
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. The 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. All of the essays are previously unpublished. In addition to
Rotberg, the contributors include David Carment, Christopher
Clapham, Nat J. Colletta, Jeffrey Herbst, Nelson Kasfir,
Michael T. Klare, Markus Kostner, Terrence Lyons, Jens
Meierhenrich, Daniel N. Posner, Susan Rose-Ackerman, Donald
R. Snodgrass, Nicolas van de Walle, Jennifer A. Widner, and
Ingo Wiederhofer.
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