The Failed States Index

Democracy may be spreading, but is the world more stable? In the second-annual Failed States Index, FP and the Fund for Peace track the countries on the edge of collapse.

BY FOREIGN POLICY & THE FUND FOR PEACE | APRIL 25, 2006

By most accounts, 2005 should have been a good year for many fragile and developing states around the world. A slew of countries -- including many with limited democratic experience, such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Kazakhstan -- held...

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