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Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder?
- Title
- Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder? / edited by Ingo Trauschweizer, Steven M. Miner.
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 14-5793 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xvii, 171 pages; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Since the end of the Cold War, a new dynamic has arisen within the international system, one that does not conform to established notions of the state's monopoly on war. In this changing environment, the global community must decide how to respond to the challenges posed to the state by military threats, political and economic decline, and social fragmentation. This insightful work considers the phenomenon of state failure and asks how the international community might better detect signs of state decay at an early stage and devise legally and politically legitimate responses. This collection of essays brings military and social historians into conversation with political and social scientists and former military officers. In case studies from the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, and Colombia, the distinguished contributors argue that early intervention to stabilize social, economic, and political systems offers the greatest promise, whereas military intervention at a later stage is both costlier and less likely to succeed"--
- Series Statement
- Baker series in peace and conflict studies
- Uniform Title
- Baker series in peace and conflict studies.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-5793
- ISBN
- 9780821420904 (hardback)
- 0821420909 (hardback)
- 9780821420911 (pb)
- 0821420917 (pb)
- 9780821444887 (pdf) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2014007947
- OCLC
- 861676490
- Title
- Failed states and fragile societies : a new world disorder? / edited by Ingo Trauschweizer, Steven M. Miner.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Baker series in peace and conflict studiesBaker series in peace and conflict studies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Trauschweizer, Ingo.Miner, Steven Merritt, 1956-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-5793