Worst of the worst  dealing with repressive and rogue nations /  [electronic resource] : 
Robert I. Rotberg, editor. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :  Washington, D.C. :  World Peace Foundation ;  Brookings Institution Press,  c2007. 
 - ix, 342 p. :  ill. ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. <br/>Palo Alto, Calif. : <br/>ebrary, <br/>2009. <br/>Available via World Wide Web. <br/>Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political persecution.<br/>Human rights.<br/>Despotism.<br/>World politics--1989-
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC571  / .W8893 2007eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>323.4/9