Weak state/Related Articles

Parent topics

• Economic development [r]: Add brief definition or description
• Insurgency [r]: A wide range of political and military actions intended to change a government, through means considered illegal by that government. ^[e]

Subtopics

• Transnational spillover from insurgency [r]: Add brief definition or description
• World Bank [r]: Collective name for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates: the International Finance Corporation, organized in 1950 to provide long-term project financing to developing countries; and the International Development Association, formed in 1960 to make long-term loans at low interest rates. ^[e]
• International Monetary Fund [r]: International organization that oversees the global financial system by stabilizing international exchange rates and facilitating development, and offering highly leveraged loans mainly to poorer countries. ^[e]
• Millennium Challenge Act [r]: United States enabling legislation for carrying out activities related to the UN Millennium Development Goals ^[e]
• Center for Global Development [r]: A think tank and interest group concerned with the interactions of globalization with the poorer countries of the world ^[e]
• Highly Indebted Poor Country [r]: Add brief definition or description

Related topics

• Failed state [r]: A nation or quasi-nation unable to deliver minimal governance services to its citizens; there may not even be a functioning government ^[e]
• C. Christine Fair [r]: Political scientist, specializing in South Asian military affairs, for the RAND Corporation; author of Cuisines of the Axis of Evil and Other Irritating States: A Dinner Party Approach to International Relations ^[e]
• Globalization [r]: The interaction of peoples, cultures, and businesses worldwide, which tend to overcome traditional national and cultural boundaries ^[e]
• Samuel Huntington [r]: An American political scientist, futurist and sociologist (1927-2008), with numerous academic and government posts; well known for his "clash of civilizations" theories and analysis of the motivations of soldiers ^[e]
  • The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order [r]: A book, by Samuel Huntington, assuming a fundamental conflict between civilizations of different cultures, and discussing grand strategy to deal with this conflict ^[e]
• Thomas P. M. Barnett [r]: A U.S. strategic theorist and writer in futures studies, best known for the book The Pentagon's New Map giving a structure for globalization ^[e]
  • The Pentagon's New Map [r]: A book on grand strategy and world development by Thomas P. M. Barnett, which postulates that world conflict is chiefly due to lack of "connectedness" of nations to the information-intensive core of nations; he also proposes a partnership, in peace enforcement, between the high-technology "takedown" function and the "nation-building" role ^[e]
• Francis Fukuyama [r]: Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, author and government adviser on global development and foreign policy; in and out of neoconservatism; adjunct fellow, Hudson Institute; director, National Endowment for Democracy, New America Foundation ^[e]
  • The End of History and the Last Man [r]: An argument, by Francis Fukuyama, that universal history, through the forces of "the logic of modern science" and the "struggle for recognition" make liberal democracy a natural end state of historical development. ^[e]
• Clifford Zinnes [r]: Expert, IRIS Center for economic research and Faculty Affiliate, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland; Former Fellow, Belfer Center Intrastate Conflict Program; Former Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School ^[e]