Failed States Index

By Joe Katzman on July 27, 2005 5:54 PM | 3 Comments

Team Stryker has a fast map graphic and a link to Foreign Policy Magazine's "Failed states Index." Worth checking out. Related resources include:

Dr. Thomas Barnett: The Pentagon's New Map [and TMLutas interview | WorldChanging.com interview].

Ralph Peters' Spotting the Losers: Seven Signs of Non-Competitive States.

Robert Kaplan, "The Coming Anarchy." Discussed and linked in Winds' The New Anarchy: Crime & War; also on our Top 5 war reading list.

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#1 from evariste | July 27, 2005 11:16 PM | Reply

Testing mod_perl config...does it work with renamed scripts?

#2 from boz | July 28, 2005 1:18 AM | Reply

Other links of note:
Column from Andres Oppenheimer that says the rankings for countries in Latin America are incorrect and fail the common sense test, particularly for Colombia.

Op-ed from Marifeli P�rez-Stable also describes some of the problems in the rankings in Latin American countries, but still discusses how weak states are a concern.

The data for the Failed States Index can be found at the Fund for Peace website in case anyone wants to run some numbers themselves.

#3 from Glen Wishard | July 28, 2005 2:37 AM | Reply

Well, it's nice to know that Libya and Argentina are successes. [Jesus Wept]

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