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Weak States and Global Threats: Fact or Fiction?
- The Washington Quarterly
- The MIT Press
- Volume 29, Number 2, Spring 2006
- pp. 27-53
- Article
- Additional Information
Little evidence underpins existing sweeping assertions about the connection between weak or failing states and transnational threats such as terrorism, proliferation, or disease, even though policy is being implemented accordingly. What characteristics of state weakness are really associated with which dangers?