Photo credit: stuff_and_nonsense / Creative Commons Uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, and across the Middle East at the start of 2011 have reminded the world just how politically fragile some countries are. But the focus of international politics has been shifting for some time now. After a half-century of forming new states from former colonies and from the breakup of the Soviet Union, the international community is today faced with the opposite situation: The disintegration of states. As an
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The Environment, Demographics, and the Threat of State Failure