Weak Links Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security

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• Author(s)
  Stewart Patrick
• Publisher
  Oxford University Press
• Format
  PDF
• Print ISBN
  9780199751518, 019975151X
• eText ISBN
  9780199751518, 019975151X
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  Conventional 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.