{"product_id":"when-states-fail-9780691116723","title":"When States Fail","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince 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. This book examines how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rotberg has collected a cadre of renowned scholars who flesh out the political, economic, and social reasons for state failure and provide prescriptions for both prevention and postfailure resuscitation.\"--Cameron M. Otopalik, Perspectives on Political Science\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps vii  Preface ix  One  The Failure and Collapse of Nation-States: Breakdown, Prevention, and Repair by Robert I. Rotberg 1  PART ONE: THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FAILURE 51  Two  Domestic Anarchy, Security Dilemmas, and Violent Predation: Causes of Failure by Nelson Kasfir 53  Three  The Global-Local Politics of State Decay by Christopher Clapham 77  Four  The Economic Correlates of State Failure: Taxes, Foreign Aid, and Policies by Nicolas van de Walle 94  Five  The Deadly Connection: Paramilitary Bands, Small Arms Diffusion, and State Failure by Michael T. Klare 116  Six  Preventing State Failure by David Carment 135  PART TWO: POST-FAILURE RESUSCITATION OF NATION-STATES 151  Seven  Forming States after Failure by Jens Meierhenrich 153  Eight  Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration: Lessons and Liabilities in Reconstruction by Nat J. Colletta, Markus Kostner, and Ingo Wiederhofer 170  Nine  Establishing the Rule of Law by Susan Rose-Ackerman 182  Ten  Building Effective Trust in the Aftermath of Severe Conflict by Jennifer A. Widner 222  Eleven  Civil Society and the Reconstruction of Failed States by Daniel N. Posner 237  Twelve  Restoring Economic Functioning in Failed States by Donald R. Snodgrass 256  Thirteen  Transforming the Institutions of War: Postconflict Elections and the Reconstruction of Failed States by Terrence Lyons 269  Fourteen  Let Them Fail: State Failure in Theory and Practice: Implications for Policy by Jeffrey Herbst 302  Contributors 319  Index 323","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403730985303,"sku":"9780691116723","price":33.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/when-states-fail-9780691116723","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}