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Article: Failing states. (Foreign Affairs).
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- September 1, 2002
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HOW ARE Tampa and September 11 linked? Not by the claim that there were terrorists on refugee boats. For a more convincing analysis, we can start with Paul Kelly's article "No Refuge from Democracy" (Weekend Australian, 27th-28th April 2002) on the present inadequacy of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. Refugees were then defined as individual dissidents selectively persecuted by regimes, often communist ones. But, as Kelly points out, we now have a completely different situation--not discrete political dissidents, but people leaving failing states in waves because the whole show, economically, politically, socially, is collapsing. Whereas tyrants denied social space to an ...
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