Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security

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Stewart Patrick (Senior Fellow; Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations)

Weak Links

Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security

Stewart Patrick (Senior Fellow; Director, Program on International Institutions and Global Governance, Council on Foreign Relations)

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Oxford University Press Inc
23 May 2011

International relations; Terrorism, armed struggle; Security services

Conventional wisdom holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats. After all, the 9/11 attacks originated in an impoverished, war-ravaged country, and transnational crime appears to flourish in weakly governed states. However, our assumptions about the threats posed by failing states are based on anecdotal arguments, not on a systematic analysis of the connections between state failure and transnational security threats. Analyzing terrorism, transnational crime, WMDs, pandemic diseases, and energy insecurity, Stewart Patrick shows that while some global threats do emerge in fragile 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.

By: Stewart Patrick (Senior Fellow; Director Program on International Institutions and Global Governance Council on Foreign Relations)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 456g
ISBN: 9780199751518
ISBN 10: 019975151X
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 23 May 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction ; 1. Left Behind: Understanding State Fragility ; 2. Transnational Terrorism ; 3. Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction ; 4. Transnational Crime ; 5. Energy Security ; 6. Infectious Disease ; Conclusion

Stewart Patrick is Senior Fellow at the Council and Director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Reviews for Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security

For Atlanticist students and scholars ...Weak Links will make for an interesting read and, although it probably should not be the first book you read on contemporary security issues due to the explicitly US-Centric focus, it is a solid text. * eInternational Relations *