Security for the Weak Nations
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith particular reference to Pakistan and Austria nations.
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 316
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith particular reference to Pakistan and Austria nations.
Author: Syed Farooq Hasnat
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stewart Patrick
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-05-23
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 0199876959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventional wisdom holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats. However, our assumptions are based on anecdotal arguments, not on a systematic analysis. Analyzing terrorism, transnational crime, WMDs, pandemic diseases, and energy insecurity, Stewart Patrick shows that while some global threats do emerge in failed states, most of their weaknesses create misery only for their own citizenry. Moreover, many threats originate farther up the chain, in wealthier and more stable countries like Russia and Venezuela. Weak Links will force policymakers to rethink what they assume about state failure and transnational insecurity.
Author: Susan E. Rice
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2010-06-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0815704356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFormer Brookings Senior Fellow Susan E. Rice spearheads an investigation of the connections between poverty and fragile states and the implications for American security. Coedited by Rice and former Brookings colleagues Corinne Graff and Carlos Pascual, Confronting Poverty is a timely reminder that alleviating global poverty and shoring up weak states are not only humanitarian and economic imperatives, but key components of a more balanced and sustainable U.S. national security strategy. Rice elucidates the relationship between poverty, state weakness, and transnational security threats, and Graff and Pascual offer policy recommendations. The book's overarching conclusions highlight the need to invest in poverty alleviation and capacity building in weak states in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty, fragility, and transnational threats. Confronting Poverty grows out of a project on global poverty and U.S. national security that Rice directed at Brookings from 2002 through January 2009, before she became U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.
Author: Liana Sun Wyler
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 2010-10
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1437935427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough long a component of U.S. foreign policy, strengthening weak and failing states has increasingly emerged as a high-priority U.S. national security goal since the end of the Cold War. The threats from these states include: providing safe havens for terrorists, organized crime, and other illicit groups; causing conflict, regional instability, and humanitarian emergencies; and undermining efforts to promote democracy, good governance, and economic sustainability. This report: (1) Provides definitions of weak states and describes the links between weak states, U.S. national security, and development challenges; (2) Surveys recent key U.S. programs and initiatives designed to address threats emanating from weak states. Illustrations.
Author: National Defense University (U S )
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2011-12-27
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn August 24-25, 2010, the National Defense University held a conference titled “Economic Security: Neglected Dimension of National Security?” to explore the economic element of national power. This special collection of selected papers from the conference represents the view of several keynote speakers and participants in six panel discussions. It explores the complexity surrounding this subject and examines the major elements that, interacting as a system, define the economic component of national security.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 500
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Susan E. Rice
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 39
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper presents the Index of State Weakness in the Developing World, which ranks all 141 developing countries according to their relative performance in four critical spheres: economic, political, security, and social welfare.
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Published: 2007
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough long a component of U.S. foreign policy, strengthening weak and failing states has increasingly emerged as a high-priority U.S. national security goal since the end of the Cold War. The past three "U.S. National Security Strategy" documents point to several threats emanating from states that are variously described as weak, fragile, vulnerable, failing, precarious, failed, crisis, and collapsed. These threats include the following: (1) providing safe havens for terrorists and other illicit groups; (2) causing conflict, regional instability, and humanitarian emergencies; and (3) undermining efforts to promote democracy and good governance. The President, in his 2005 "National Security Presidential Directive" (NSPD) 44, asserts that "the United States should work ... to anticipate state failure, avoid it whenever possible, and respond quickly and effectively when necessary and appropriate ..." The U.S. government remains in the early stages of developing capabilities and resources for addressing a complex mix of security, development, and governance challenges confronting weak states. New U.S. programs and initiatives fall under four main categories: (1) conflict and threat early warning, (2) international cooperation and diplomacy, (3) foreign development assistance, and (4) post-conflict stability operations. However, as U.S. policies toward weak and failing states have grown in priority and cost, particularly since 9/11, some policy makers and analysts have begun to question the Administration's commitment to effectively addressing the problems posed by these states. This report first provides definitions of weak states and describes the links between weak states, U.S. national security, and development challenges. Second, the report surveys recent key U.S. programs and initiatives designed to address threats emanating from weak states. Finally, it highlights relevant issues about U.S. policy toward these states that Congress may consider.