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The ‘Failed State’ Boogeyman

Posted: 19 July 2010 by Editors in Political Science, Somalia
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Highlighting U.S. intervention in the further destruction of Somalia and as Ugandans mourn a terrorist attack from Somali militants and Fareed Zakaria noting the non-threat of ‘failed states’ and the imminent blowback induced by the failed missions of nation building.