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    <title>Worst of the worst</title>
    <subTitle>dealing with repressive and rogue nations</subTitle>
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    <publisher>World Peace Foundation</publisher>
    <publisher>Brookings Institution Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2007</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2007</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>ix, 342 p. : ill.</extent>
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  <abstract>"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.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Robert I. Rotberg, editor.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Political persecution</topic>
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    <topic>Human rights</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Despotism</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>World politics</topic>
    <temporal>1989-</temporal>
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  <classification authority="lcc">JC571 .W8893 2007</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">323.4/9</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780815775645</identifier>
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