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

Brilliant and engagingly written, Why Nations Fail answers the question that has stumped the experts for centuries: Why are some nations rich and others poor, d

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 state i

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

Weak or failed states - where no government is in control - are the source of many of the world's most serious problems, from poverty, AIDS and drugs to terrori