The strategic significance of global inequality

Washington Quarterly

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 185-198

  Sachs, Jeffrey D ^a,b  

^a Center for International Development   (United States)

^b Department of Economics ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0000031619     PISSN: 0163660X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/01636600152102331     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. World Bank, World Development Report 2000/2001 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), table 2.
2. See Journal of African Economies 9, no. 3 (October 2000) (series of articles on conflicts in Africa).
3. See State Failure Task Force, "State Failure Task Force Report: Phase II Findings," Environmental Change and Security Project Report, no. 5 (Woodrow Wilson Center: Summer 1999), 49-72.
4. Robert Barro, "Determinants of Democracy," Journal of Political Economy 107, no. 6, pt. 2 (December 1999): S158-S183 (Symposium on the Economic Analysis of Social Behavior in Honor of Gary S. Becker).
5. See Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler, "On the Incidence of Civil War in Africa," August 2000, located at 〈http://www.worldbank.org/research/conflict/papers/ incidence1.pdf〉.
6. See David Bloom and Jeffrey Sachs, "Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), 2:207-289; Jeffrey Sachs, Andrew Mellinger, and John Gallup, "Geography of Wealth and Poverty," Scientific American (March 2001).
7. See David Bloom and Jeffrey Sachs, "Geography, Demography, and Economic Growth in Africa," Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (1998), 2:207-289; Jeffrey Sachs, Andrew Mellinger, and John Gallup, "Geography of Wealth and Poverty," Scientific American (March 2001).
8. In chronological order, cases of military intervention following state failures are (the first date in each case refers to the military intervention, and subsequent dates refer to state failure) Cuba (1962, 1956-1961), Thailand (1962, 1957), Laos (1962-1975, 1960-1979), Congo (1964, 1960-1965), Vietnam (1964-1973, 1958-1975), Dominican Republic (1965, 1961-1966), Congo (1967, 1960-1965), Cambodia (1970, 1970-1979), Cyprus (1974, 1963-1968, 1974), Vietnam (1975, 1958-1975) Lebanon (1976, 1965-1992), Korea (1976, not applicable), Zaire (1978, 1977-1979) Iran (1980, 1977), El Salvador (1981, 1977-1992), Libya (1981, not applicable), Lebanon (1982, 1965-1992), Honduras (1983-1989, 1978-1990 state failure in Nicaragua), Chad (1983, 1965-1996), Liberia (1990, 1989-1997), Zaire (1991 1991) Sierra Leone (1992, 1991 onward), Somalia (1992, 1988 onward), Bosnia-Herzegovina (1993, 1992-1996), and Somalia (1993, 1988 onward). The dates for state failure are taken from the State Failure Task Force data set; the dates of U.S. military intervention are taken from Ellen C. Collier, "Instances of Use of United States Forces Abroad, 1798-1993" (U.S. Congressional Research Service, October 7, 1993), located at 〈http://www.history.navy.mil/wars/forabroad.htm〉.
9. Origins of a Catastrophe: Yugoslavia and its Destroyers (New York: Random House, 1999).
10. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776), 520.
11. Amon Cohen, "Unhealthy Rise in Danger," Financial Times, November 21, 2000, 16.
12. R. P. Cicotta et al., "Human Population in the Biodiversity Hotspots," Nature 404 (April 27, 2000).
13. National Intelligence Council, "The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States" (Washington, D.C., January 2000), located at 〈http:// www.cia/gov/NIC_Publications/Other_Products/infectious_diseases_paper. html〉.