Social science.

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

"It's hard to imagine any American reading this book and not seeing his country in a new, and deeply troubling, light." —The New York Times Book Review The Un

Since 1990, more than 10 million people have been killed in the civil wars of failed states, and hundreds of millions more have been deprived of fundamental rig

What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The “failed states” literature is important because it aims to understand how s