Contests to reorganize the international system after the Cold War agree on the security threat of failed states: this book asks why.

Why are some states able to deliver public services to their citizens while others cannot? Why are some states beset by internal conflict that leaves many impov

The world's foremost critic of U.S. foreign policy exposes the hollow promises of democracy in American actions abroad—and at home The United States has repea

Social science.

The threat of terror, which flares in Africa and Indonesia, has given the problem of failed states an unprecedented immediacy and importance. In the past, failu