This intriguing approach to international conflict seeks to facilitate a dialogue between academics and policymakers on how to better anticipate and prevent state failure, subsequent forced migration, and the terrorist threat that often results.• Includes case studies of failed and failing states, including Somalia, Pakistan, Colombia, Haiti, and Sudan• Provides maps of Sudan, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and Somali showing the terrorist cells present in these states• A broad-based bibliography of sources from international conflict studies, refugee and migration, and terrorism studies