When states fail causes and consequences

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The failure and collapse of nation-states: breakdown, prevention, and repair / Robert I. Rotberg -- PART ONE: THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF FAILURE -- Domestic anarchy, security dilemmas, and violent predation: causes of failure / Nelson Ksfir -- The global-local politics of state decay / Christopher Clapham -- The economic correlates of state failure: taxes, foreign aid, and policies / Nicolas van de Walle -- The deadly connection: paramilitary bands, small arms diffusion, and state failure / Michael T. Klare -- Preventing state failure / David Carment -- PART TWO: POST-FAILURE RESUSCITATION OF NATION-STATES -- Forming states after failure / Jens Meierhenrich -- Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration: lessons and liabilities in reconstruction / Nat J. Colletta, Markus Kostner, Ingo Wiederhofer -- Establishing the rule of law / Susan Rose-Ackerman -- Building effective trust in the aftermath of severe conflict / Jennifer A. Widner -- Civil society and the reconstruction of failed states / Daniel N. Posner -- Restoring economic functioning in failed states / Donald R. Snodgrass -- Transforming the institutions of war: postconflict elections and the reconstruction of failed states / Terrence Lyons -- Let them fail: state failure in theory and practice: implications for policy / Jeffrey Herbst.