TY - BOOK AU - Rotberg,Robert I. ED - World Peace Foundation. ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Worst of the worst: dealing with repressive and rogue nations AV - JC571 .W8893 2007eb U1 - 323.4/9 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Cambridge, Mass., Washington, D.C. PB - World Peace Foundation, Brookings Institution Press KW - Political persecution KW - Human rights KW - Despotism KW - World politics KW - 1989- KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 / John R. Heilbrunn -- Uzbekistan : a decaying dictatorship withdrawn from the West / Martha Brill Olcott -- Assessing repression in Syria / David W. Lesch -- Tunisia's "sweet little" regime / Clement Henry; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries N2 - "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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10193753 ER -