Dealing with failed states : crossing analytic boundaries / edited by Harvey Starr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pathways to state failure / Jack Goldstone -- Logic of state failure : learning from late century Africa / Robert H. Bates -- Bad neighbors : failed states and their consequences / Zaryab Iqbal and Harvey Starr -- What are the preconditions for turnarounds in failing states? / Lisa Chauvet and Paul Collier -- State fragility and implications for aid allocation : an empirical analysis / David Carment, Yiagadeesen Samy and Stewart Prest -- Temporal analysis of political instability through descriptive subgroup discovery / Daniel Lambach and Dragan Gamberger -- Failing states and failing regimes : the prediction and simulation of state failure / Neil A. Englehart and Marc V. Simon.