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.
