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Revision 14 . . (edit) December 13, 2001 2:53 am by Taw [spelling]
Revision 13 . . (edit) December 13, 2001 2:19 am by Larry Sanger [Adding some more salient semantic details that were curiously omitted]
Revision 12 . . (edit) December 13, 2001 2:15 am by Larry Sanger [Adding some more salient semantic details that were curiously omitted]
Revision 11 . . December 13, 2001 2:14 am by Larry Sanger [Adding some more salient semantic details that were curiously omitted]
Revision 10 . . December 13, 2001 12:32 am by Hagedis
Revision 9 . . (edit) December 12, 2001 11:49 pm by (logged).253.64.xxx
Revision 8 . . (edit) December 12, 2001 5:16 pm by (logged).253.39.xxx [term in bold]
Revision 7 . . December 12, 2001 10:29 am by (logged).132.75.xxx [mention that it's a US terminology]
Revision 6 . . (edit) December 12, 2001 8:43 am by Eloquence
Revision 5 . . December 12, 2001 8:42 am by Eloquence [moved questions to talk]
Revision 4 . . December 12, 2001 8:31 am by (logged).132.75.xxx [ a couple of random queries about this term]
Revision 3 . . December 12, 2001 5:43 am by Jimbo Wales [Think about it...]
Revision 2 . . December 12, 2001 5:31 am by Taw [definition]
Revision 1 . . December 12, 2001 5:10 am by Chenyu
  

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A rogue state (also known as states of concern) is a controversial political term, used mainly in the United States,
denoting a government which does not
abide by international norms of behavior and whose leadership is irrational so that
conventional methods of deterence are ineffective. The existence of rogue states has
been used to justify recent interest in anti-ballistic missiles on the basis that a rogue state may acquire [weapons of mass destruction]? and not be deterred by threats of retalliation. North Korea and Iraq have been candidates for the name rogue state.
Rogue state is a controversial political term denoting a government which does not abide by international norms of behavior and whose leadership is irrational so that conventional methods of deterrence are ineffective. The term is used mainly in the United States. Rogue states (when the term is used unironically by the United States and other countries and organizations) are almost always smaller dictatorships that severely restrict what those in the West would regard as basic human freedoms. They are generally warlike to the West and its allies Japan and South Korea in the East, and are often suspected of sponsoring terrorism. Under the Clinton administration, the term "rogue state" was rejected in favor of the more neutral term state of concern.

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Opponents to the concept of rogue states point out that leaders of even brutal and oppressive regimes act according to the logic of self-interest and argue that rogue state actually means "any state that opposes the U.S.". Others accept the concept but consider the U.S. to be a rogue state.
The existence of rogue states, and the threat they pose to the security of some other countries, has been used to justify foreign policy and other political policy. For example, renewed interest in and funding of anti-ballistic missiles programs in the U.S. is, according to the most prominent public statements of U.S. officials, grounded in the concern that a rogue state may acquire [weapons of mass destruction]? and not be deterred by threats of retalliation. North Korea and Iraq have been candidates for the name "rogue state."

Opponents to the concept of rogue states point out that leaders of even brutal and oppressive regimes act according to the logic of self-interest and argue that "rogue state" actually means "any state that opposes the U.S." Others accept the concept but almost always only to accuse the U.S. of being a rogue state, whose foreign policy is sometimes accused of having the sort of brutality and capriciousness of the less tongue-in-cheek "rogue states"; see anti-Americanism.

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* [U.S. State Department Drops 'Rogue State' Tag]

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