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As we become more firmly established in the 21st century, the international system faces a number of increasingly more difficult challenges that pose threats to global security and human progress. Among these challenges, water scarcity and failing states have each received promi…

This research emerged from the belief that merely economic explanations of rent seeking were too narrow and an interdisciplinary approach was needed to understand historical structural factors that contribute to particularistic exchanges. Rent-seeking and particularistic ties ar…

This study offers a critical examination of state failure and the accompanying problems of terrorism and piracy that have plagued Somalia for almost two decades. Focusing primarily on the events that occurred within the nation following the ousting of the Union of Islamic Courts…