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Failing states. (Foreign Affairs).
HOW ARE Tampa and September 11 linked? Not by the claim that there were terrorists on refugee boats. For a more convincing analysis, we can start with Paul Kelly's article "No Refuge from Democracy" (Weekend Australian, 27th-28th April 2002) on the present inadequacy of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Refugees were then defined as individual dissidents selectively persecuted by regimes, often communist ones. But, as Kelly points out, we now have a completely different situation--not discrete political dissidents, but people leaving failing states in waves because the whole show, economically, politically, socially, is collapsing. Whereas tyrants denied social space to an ...
- A new approach: the need to focus on failing states.(picking up the pieces:...
- Magazine article from: Harvard International Review Mair, Stefan January 1, 2008 700+ words
...between failed states and failing states. Failing states like Colombia, Sri Lanka...illustrates the threat posed by failing states. Here it must be stated that...in the view of the Western world, the regime controlled greater...
- 'US threatened by failing states'.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. February 24, 2005 700+ words
...organisations active in international humanitarian assistance and development and meets three times a year. "Ignoring failed and failing states can pose great risks, including the likelihood of terrorism taking root. Of particular concern are economic instability...
- Failing states.(CORRESPONDENCE)(United States counterinsurgency in Iraq and...
- Magazine article from: Harvard International Review Hippler, Jochen June 22, 2009 700+ words
William Rosenau ("Counterinsurgency: Lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan," Spring 2009) raises several important points. It is difficult not to agree with most of them. But in regard to his "more fundamental" criticism, this is not the case. Rosenau contends that "since the 1960s, US
- The use of resources: a teacher of our acquaintance once asked: "Wouldn't it be...
- Magazine article from: Canada and the World Backgrounder May 1, 2006 700+ words
...Canadian needs. The danger in today's world comes from what are called "Failed States...choices have to be made. At present, the world overwhelmingly chooses the military option. In 2004, all the world's nations spent more than one trillion...
- Unstable Countries Are Likely a Bigger Danger to U.S. than Hussein Regime.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News December 24, 2002 700+ words
...Iraq. The notion that failing states are most dangerous...problem is that fixing failing states is really difficult...president recognizes that failing states are bad for America...big and complicated world" Americans face varied...
- Failed states and the limits to force: the challenge of Afghanistan.(Excerpt)
- Magazine article from: Ploughshares Monitor Regehr, Ernie December 22, 2007 700+ words
...plight of the vulnerable within those failing states. Rather, "the threats of weak states...words, if a primary assumption about failing states is that they threaten the security...international responses to failed and failing states will be filtered through the perceived...
- Imperialism of the fittest.(international relations, world government)
- Magazine article from: The National Interest Inozemtsev, Vladislav Karaganov, Sergei June 22, 2005 700+ words
...bulk of the Third World, as well as a...stability. Failed and failing states provide havens...the failed and failing states in the Periphery...partners around the world), we are at a...revived if failed and failing states can be repaired...
- The Failed States Index: about 2 billion people live in countries that are in...
- Magazine article from: Foreign Policy July 1, 2005 700+ words
...state failure? The World Bank has identified...put the number of failing states at about 20. To...ranking of weak and failing states. Using 12 social...profile of the new world disorder of the...problem of weak and failing states is far more serious...
