01395nam a2200301 a 4500 EDZ0000077296 StDuBDS 20150804193925.0 m||||||||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 110513s2011 nyu fo| 001 0 eng|d 9780199895366 (ebook) : No price StDuBDS StDuBDS JZ5588 355.033 22 Patrick, Stewart. Weak links [electronic resource] : fragile states, global threats, and international security / Stewart Patrick. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011. 1 online resource. Conventional wisdom among policymakers in both the US and Europe holds that weak and failing states are the source of the world's most pressing security threats today. However, as this book shows, our assumptions about the threats posed by failed and failing states are based on false premises. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 11, 2011). Includes bibliographical references and index. Security, International. Political stability. World politics 2005-2015. Print version 9780199751501 Oxford scholarship online http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751501.001.0001 36900 36900