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Worst of the worst : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / Robert I. Rotberg, editor.

Title
  1. Worst of the worst : dealing with repressive and rogue nations / Robert I. Rotberg, editor.
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  1. Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007.

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Additional authors
  1. Rotberg, Robert I.
  2. World Peace Foundation
  3. Brookings Institution
Description
  1. ix, 342 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. "Identifies and characterizes the most repressive states and singles out which are aggressive. Defines the actions constituting repression and proposes a method of measuring human rights violations, presenting an index of nation-state repressiveness. Offers a way to decide which repressive and rogue states are most deserving of strong policy attention"--Provided by publisher.
Uniform title
  1. Project Muse UPCC books
Subject
  1. Since 1989
  2. World politics > 1989-
  3. Political persecution
  4. Human rights
  5. Despotism
  6. Human Rights
Contents
  1. Repressive, aggressive, and rogue nation-states : how odious, how dangerous? / Robert I. Rotberg -- Human rights rogues : aggressive, dangerous, or both? / Mary Caprioli and Peter F. Trumbore -- Running the numbers : a comparative perspective / Yi Feng and Saumik Paul -- North Korea : the tyranny of deprivation / Marcus Noland -- Turkmenistan under Niyazov and Berdymukhammedov / Gregory Gleason -- Burma : poster child for entrenched repression / Priscilla Clapp -- Winning the African prize for repression : Zimbabwe / Robert I. Rotberg -- Understanding repression in Belarus / Margarita M. Balmaceda -- Equatorial Guinea and Togo : what prize for repression? / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the west / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
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