Written Assignment: The Reasons Underlying Failed States
Use the Internet to research one developing nation of your choice. Your research should include an examination of the effects that issues such as bad governance, civil war and corruption have on the creation of states that have failed. Include in your research the articles from the discussion questions as well as the material covered by the Webtext and lectures in Weeks 1 through 8.
Write a six- to eight-page research paper in which you:
Identify the factors that contribute to a state's failure to deliver good governance to its people. Support your response with concrete examples of each of the results that you have cited.
Analyze why the specific actions taken by the leadership of the selected country have failed.
Discuss the prospects for success in the selected country and support your response with examples.
Use at least seven quality academic sources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia, blogs, and other nonacademic websites do not qualify as academic resources. Approval of resources is at the instructor's discretion.