Confronting Poverty

Weak States and U.S. National Security

Susan E. Rice, Corinne Graff, Carlos Pascual, Susan E. Rice, Corinne Graff, Carlos Pascual

• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN:
  9780815703907
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9780815704355
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Development Economics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Copyright Information
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• The National Security Implications of Global Poverty
• Poverty and State Weakness
• Poverty, Development, and Violent Extremism in Weak States
• Poverty, State Weakness, and Civil War
• Feeding Insecurity? Poverty, Weak States, and Climate Change
• State Weakness and Infectious Diseases
• Conclusion and Policy Implications
• Contributors
• Index
• Back Cover