Authors:Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb, Robert Gilpin, J
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: interdisciplinary, history, volume, studies, wars, prevention, major, origin
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 1989-02-24
List price: $37.99
ISBN-10: 0521379555
ISBN-13: 9780521379557

Since the development of the modern state system in Europe four centuries ago, there have been ten general wars involving a majority of the major powers and a high level of casualties. Another major war is difficult to conceive of, since it would presumably be the last such conflict, and yet it is not an impossibility. In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the problems in preventing a nuclear war.

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Pre
Keywords: special, report, april, council, challenges, elections, continuing, nigeria
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0876093993
ISBN-13: 9780876093993

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: consequences, causes, states
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-11-24
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691116725
ISBN-13: 9780691116723

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 rights. The threat of terrorism has only heightened the problem posed by failed states. When States Fail is the first book to examine how and why states decay and what, if anything, can be done to prevent them from collapsing. It defines and categorizes strong, weak, failing, and collapsed nation-states according to political, social, and economic criteria. And it offers a comprehensive recipe for their reconstruction. The book comprises

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: prospects, economic, political, renewed, haiti
Number of Pages: 245
Published: 1997-04
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0815775865
ISBN-13: 9780815775867

The election of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in 1990, his American-supported restoration to office in 1994, and the peaceful election in 1995 of President Rene Preval were harbingers of a radically new and promising era in Haitian political and economic life. With a five-year presidency, Preval now has the opportunity to reconstruct and remold the Haitian state, to raise Haitian living standards, and to create a new political culture of democracy and tolerance. The future of his country and the success of Haiti’s last best chance to break its chains of poverty, desperation, and depri

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: future, democratic, prospects, burma
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 1998-08
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0815775822
ISBN-13: 9780815775829

Since Burma’s current despotic military rulers took power in 1989, this pivotal, troubled, and bitterly divided Southeast Asian nation has rejected important opportunities for political and economic liberalization. The ruling State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) has repressed Nobel Peace Price winner and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and her fellow democracy advocates, rejecting their electoral victory in 1990. The SLORC had reached a wary truce with ethnic minority groups, and has recently become a member of the economically important Association of South

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: The MIT Press
Keywords: change, political, politics
Number of Pages: 349
Published: 2001-04-23
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0262681293
ISBN-13: 9780262681292

Politics and political change are the staples of history. This collection shows how the study of past politics can be deepened by theory and practice from political science, sociology, and economics, and how the application of quantitative methods to received assumptions can expand our understanding of all political history. The contributions cross continents and range in time from the medieval period to the modern. The wide-ranging topics include political confessionalism, urban voter fraud, and methods of electing popes. Contributors Sara Alpern, Dale Baum, Allan Bogue, W. Dean Burnham,

Author: Robert I. Rotberg
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Keywords: influence, aid, trade, africa, china
Number of Pages: 339
Published: 2008-10
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 081577561X
ISBN-13: 9780815775614

Africa has long attracted China. We can date their first certain involvement from the fourteenth century, but East African city-states may have been trading with southern China even earlier. In the mid-twentieth century, Maoist China funded and educated sub-Saharan African anticolonial liberation movements and leaders, and the PRC then assisted new sub-Saharan nations. Africa and China are now immersed in their third and most transformative era of heavy engagement, one that promises to do more for economic growth and poverty alleviation than anything attempted by Western colonialism or interna