Confronting Poverty

Weak States and U.S. National Security

Confronting Poverty cover

Confronting Poverty

Weak States and U.S. National Security

Quantity
In stock
$44.99 RRP $49.99 Website price saving $5.00 (10%)

This product is usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks

Description

Former Brookings Senior Fellow Susan E. Rice spearheads an investigation of the connections between poverty and fragile states and the implications for American security. Coedited by Rice and former Brookings colleagues Corinne Graff and Carlos Pascual, Confronting Poverty is a timely reminder that alleviating global poverty and shoring up weak states are not only humanitarian and economic imperatives, but key components of a more balanced and sustainable U.S. national security strategy.
Rice elucidates the relationship between poverty, state weakness, and transnational security threats, and Graff and Pascual offer policy recommendations. The book's overarching conclusions highlight the need to invest in poverty alleviation and capacity building in weak states in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty, fragility, and transnational threats.
Confronting Poverty grows out of a project on global poverty and U.S. national security that Rice directed at Brookings from 2002 through January 2009, before she became U.S. permanent representative to the United Nations.

Product details

Published 15 Jan 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 256
ISBN 9780815703907
Imprint Brookings Institution Press
Dimensions 228 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Susan E. Rice

Anthology Editor

Corinne Graff

Anthology Editor

Carlos Pascual

Related Titles

Get 30% off in the May sale - for one week only

Environment: Staging