📚 Failed States

Books with failed states on their catalogue record, first published between 1986 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject failed states in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 178 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Why Nations Fail	Daron Acemoglu	2012	15
	Human Rights and the Hollow State	Helen J. Delfeld	2014	7
	When Things Fell Apart	Bates, Robert H.	2008	6
	Dealing with Failed States	Harvey Starr	2009	6
	States of Disorder	Dan Halvorson	2013	6
	Failed States and the Origins of Violence	Tiffiany Howard	2014	6
	Haiti : from Revolutionary Slaves to Powerless Citizens	Alex Dupuy	2014	6
	Persistent state weakness in the global age	Denisa Kostovicova	2009	5
	Constitutional Paradigms and the Stability of States	Noel Cox	2016	5
	Idea of Failed States	H. Christian Breede	2017	5
	When Things Fell Apart	Robert H. Bates	2008	4
	Failed states	Matthew Bukovac	2010	4
	Weak links	Stewart Patrick	2010	4
	Fragile states	Lothar Brock	2012	4
	State Fragility Around the World	Laurie A. Gould	2016	4
	Ideology of Failed States	Susan L. Woodward	2017	4
	Staatsversagen	Martin Jänicke	1986	3
	Fixing failed states	Ashraf Ghani	2008	3
	Persistent state weakness in the global age	Denisa Kostovicova	2009	3
	Failed States and Institutional Decay	Natasha M. Ezrow	2013	3
	Development in Difficult Sociopolitical Contexts	A. Ware	2014	3
	Gangster States	K. Hirschfeld	2015	3
	Counterterrorism in African Failed States	Thomas A. Dempsey	2006	2
	"Voznikai︠u︡shchie" i "nesostoi︠a︡vshiesi︠a︡" gosudarstva v mirovoĭ ėkonomike i politike	I. O. Abramova	2007	2
	Wenn Staaten Scheitern	Alexander Straßner	2007	2
	The fragility of the 'failed state' paradigm	Neyire Akpinarli	2009	2
	Confronting poverty	Susan E. Rice	2009	2
	A principled approach to state failure	Chiara Giorgetti	2010	2
	Armed conflicts in South Asia, 2009	Suba Chandran, D.	2010	2
	State Failure	A. Taylor	2013	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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