02883nam a2200433 a 4500001001000000003000700010005001700017006001900034007001500053008004100068020003600109020002700145035002200172035002300194035002500217035002300242035002100265040004100286050002300327082001600350245012100366260010700487300002300594504005100617505087500668520038301543590014701926650003502073650002502108650002302133650003402156655002902190700003102219710003602250710002802286797002002314856009602334999001902430EBC315010MiAaPQ20250821102538.0m     o  d |      cr cnu||||||||070614s2007    maua    ob    001 0 eng    a9780815775645q(electronic bk.)  z9780815775676q(print)  a(MiAaPQ)EBC315010  a(Au-PeEL)EBL315010  a(CaPaEBR)ebr10193753  a(CaONFJC)MIL102968  a(OCoLC)780140715  aMiAaPQbengerdaepncMiAaPQdMiAaPQ 4aJC571b.W8893 20070 a323.4/922200aWorst of the worsth[electronic resource] :bdealing with repressive and rogue nations /cRobert I. Rotberg, editor.  aCambridge, Mass. :bWorld Peace Foundation ;aWashington, D.C. :bBrookings Institution Press,cc2007.  aix, 342 p. :bill.  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aRepressive, 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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry.  a"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.  aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 0aPolitical persecution.9146394 0aHuman rights.934757 0aDespotism.9146395 0aWorld politicsy1989-9146396 4aElectronic books.9351421 aRotberg, Robert I.91463972 aWorld Peace Foundation.91463982 aProQuest (Firm)91463992 aProQuest (Firm)40uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kuct-ebooks/detail.action?docID=315010zClick to View  c239638d239638