TY - BOOK AU - Patrick,Stewart TI - Weak links: fragile states, global threats, and international security SN - 9780199895366 (ebook) : AV - JZ5588 U1 - 355.033 22 PY - 2011/// CY - New York, Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Security, International KW - Political stability KW - World politics KW - 2005-2015 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199751501.001.0001 ER -