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Failed States in a World of Terror. / Robert I. Rotberg.

by Rotberg, Robert I; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 75Global Issues. Publisher: Foreign Affairs, 2002ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Failure (Psychology) | National state | Political leadership | Political stability | Social problems | Zimbabwe -- Politics and governmentDDC classification: 050 Summary: "In the wake of September 11 [2002], the threat of terrorism has given the problem of failed nation-states an immediacy and importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. Since the early 1990s, wars in and among failed states have killed about eight million people, most of them civilians, and displaced another four million. The number of those impoverished, malnourished, and deprived of fundamental needs such as security, health care, and education has totaled in the hundreds of millions." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) This article discusses the impact failed nation-states have upon their citizens.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.

Originally Published: Failed States in a World of Terror, July/Aug. 2002; pp. 127-140.

"In the wake of September 11 [2002], the threat of terrorism has given the problem of failed nation-states an immediacy and importance that transcends its previous humanitarian dimension. Since the early 1990s, wars in and among failed states have killed about eight million people, most of them civilians, and displaced another four million. The number of those impoverished, malnourished, and deprived of fundamental needs such as security, health care, and education has totaled in the hundreds of millions." (FOREIGN AFFAIRS) This article discusses the impact failed nation-states have upon their citizens.

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