State failure and state weakness in a time of terror
By: Robert I. Rotberg,  editor
Contributors: Rotberg, Robert I
Publisher: World Peace Foundation; Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass; Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 354
Subjects: Legitimacy of governments -- Developing countries; Political stability -- Developing countries; World politics -- 1989-; Developing countries -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Failed states, collapsed states, weak states : causes and indicators / Robert I. Rotberg; title: The Democratic Republic of the Congo : from failure to potential reconstruction / René Lemarchand; title: Sierra Leone : warfare in a post-state society / William Reno; title: The Sudan : a successfully failed state / Gérard Prunier and Rachel Gisselquist; title: Somalia : can a collapsed state reconstitute itself? / Walter S. Clarke and Robert Gosende; title: Columbia : lawlessness, drug trafficking, and carving up the state / Harvey F. Kline; title: Indonesia : the erosion of state capacity / Michael Malley; title: Sri Lanka : a fragmented state / Erin K. Jenne; title: Tajikistan : regionalism and weakness / Nasrin Dadmehr; title: Fiji : divided and weak / Stephanie Lawson; title: Haiti : a case of endemic weakness; title: Marlye Gélin-Adams and David M. Malone; title: Lebanon : failure, collapse, and resuscitation / Oren Barak