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Cambridge, Mass. : World Peace Foundation ; Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2007

1 online resource (ix, 342 p.) : ill

ISBN 0815775660 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 0815775679 (pbk. : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780815775669 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780815775676 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 A. Clapp -- Winning the African prize for repression : Zimbabwe / Robert I. Rotberg -- Understanding repression in Belarus / Margarita M. Balmaceda -- Equatorial Guinea and Togo : what price 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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia’s "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.

"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..

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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