War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators

Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.

DECEMBER 28, 2011

Foreign Policy's annual Failed States Index profiles the world's most vulnerable countries (and reliably prompts angry denials from their governments). These stunning images portray life in the 60 worst-ranking countries on the Index -- an existence too often dominated by squalor, poverty, and war.

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