Weak links: fragile states, global threats, and international security

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Conventional wisdom among policymakers in both the US and Europe holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats today. However, as this book shows, our assumptions about the threats posed by failed and failing states are based on false premises.

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

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Publication Date:©2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:Oxford
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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"A Council on Foreign Relations book."

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (x, 342 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780199876952, 0199876959
oclc:ocn774392870
LC Classification:JZ5588
Dewey Decimal:355/.033

Left behind : understanding state fragility -- Transnational terrorism -- Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction -- Transnational crime -- Energy insecurity -- Infectious disease.

Subjects

Conflicts Diseases Energy security États défaillants Failed states HISTORY -- Military International peace and security Political stability Political theory Politique mondiale -- 2005-2015 Poverty Security, International Stabilité politique TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Sc… Terrorism Transnational crime World politics World politics -- 2005-2015