In an exclusive new index, Foreign Policy and the Center for a New American Security surveyed more than 3,400 active and retired officers at the highest levels of command about the state of the U.S. military. They see a force stretched dangerously thin and a country ill-prepared for the next fight.

The world’s weakest states aren’t just a danger to themselves. They can threaten the progress and stability of countries half a world away. In the third annual Failed States Index, FOREIGN POLICY and The Fund for Peace rank the countries where the risk of failure is running high.

• 2008 Failed States Index
• 2007 Failed States Index
• 2006 Failed States Index
• 2005 Failed States Index

The Terrorism Index

In the third Terrorism Index, more than 100 of America’s most respected foreign-policy experts see a world that is growing more dangerous, a national security strategy in disrepair, and a war in Iraq that is alarmingly off course.

• 2008 Terrorism Index (September/October)
• 2007 Terrorism Index (September/October)
• 2007 Terrorism Index (February)
• 2006 Terrorism Index

Measuring Globalization: Economic Reversals, Forward Momentum

It’s a small world, and globalization is making it smaller, even in the face of conflict and chaos. For the sixth year, FP, in collaboration with A.T. Kearney, sorts out globalization’s winners and losers. Find out which countries come out on top and which ones are falling behind.

• 2007 Globalization Index
• 2006 Globalization Index
• 2005 Globalization Index
• 2004 Globalization Index
• 2003 Globalization Index
• 2002 Globalization Index
• 2001 Globalization Index

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Poverty is blamed for everything from terrorism to bird flu. Rich nations have never sounded more committed to stamping it out. Is it all just hot air? The fourth annual CGD/FP Commitment to Development Index ranks 21 rich nations on whether they’re working to end global poverty—or just making it worse.

• Ranking the Rich 2006
• Ranking the Rich 2005
• Ranking the Rich 2004
• 2001 Commitment to Development Index

Professors of international relations counsel the leaders of today and mold the policymakers of tomorrow. But what do they think about the most pressing foreign-policy issues facing the United States? In our second exclusive survey, FP steps inside the ivory tower. By Susan Peterson, Amy Oakes, Michael J. Tierney, and Daniel Maliniak

• Inside the Ivory Tower 2009
• Inside the Ivory Tower 2007
• Inside the Ivory Tower 2006

• Unrestricted Access
  By John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
• A Dangerous Exemption
  By Zbigniew Brzezinski
• Mearsheimer and Walt Respond
  By John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt

• An Uncivilized Argument
  By Aaron Friedberg
• The Mind-set Matters
  By Dennis Ross
• The Complex Truth
  By Shlomo Ben-Ami

Nothing is changing the world's political and economic landscape more than China's joining the ranks of the great powers. Last fall, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace convened some of the world's leading thinkers on China to assess the consequences of the country's rapid ascent. FP asked seven of these experts to discuss the Middle Kingdom's return to greatness.

Disarray in post-Saddam Iraq offers a sharp reminder that ridding a country of a despotic regime is much easier than figuring out who or what comes after. What economic, social, and political forces will shape the futures of other oppressed nations once their dictators fall?