Failed States
The Worst of the Worst
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, see which countries fared worst across 12 indicators.
JULY/AUGUST 2012
Are All States Failing States?
Every unstable country is unstable in its own way.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JULY/AUGUST 2012
The Watch List
Predicting state failure isn't as hard as you think.
BY JAY ULFELDER | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Was the Arab Spring Worth It?
The people of the Middle East have paid a steep price to overthrow their dictators.
BY HUSSEIN IBISH | JULY/AUGUST 2012
10 Reasons Countries Fall Apart
States don't fail overnight. The seeds of of their destruction are sown deep within their political institutions.
BY DARON ACEMOGLU, JAMES A. ROBINSON | JULY/AUGUST 2012
How Bad Is Bad?
Although the 10 worst failed states don’t necessarily suffer from the same problems, they do share one thing in common: a miserable quality of life for most of their people. And when they’re stacked up against the United States, the meaning of “failure” is devastatingly clear.
JUNE 18, 2012
States of Change
Which countries gained and declined the most in this year's Failed States Index?
BY J.J. MESSNER | JUNE 20, 2011
The Undeveloping World
The Eurozone's weakest have taken a hit in the latest Failed States Index.
BY NATE HAKEN, ALESSANDRA WASSERSTROM | JUNE 20, 2011
The Brutal Truth
Failed states are mainly a threat to their own inhabitants. We should help them anyway.
BY STEWART PATRICK | JULY/AUGUST 2011
Reality Check: How Bad Are They?
Worlds apart in language, culture, and daily routine, the top failed states still share a quality of life that is at best difficult and at worst fatal for the majority of the population.
JULY/AUGUST 2010
Money Can Buy Love
China isn't just investing in minerals, oil, and other raw goods -- it's buying diplomatic favors and loyalty, too. Chinese investment by region, 2005-2009, in billions of dollars:
JULY/AUGUST 2010
Actually, It's Mountains
Sometimes the toughest obstacles are the naturally occurring ones.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Who Else Is to Blame?
From security short falls to lack of government accountibility, Mo Ibrahim, Paul Wolfowitz, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Bruce Babbitt, and Raymond C. Offenheiser explain those contributing factors that cripple societies and inevitably keep failed states failing.
JULY/AUGUST 2010
La Vie en %$!
Why is France still propping up Africa's dictators?
BY BOUBACAR BORIS DIOP | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Where Autocrats Don't Fear to Tread
Why dictators love the United Nations.
BY JEFFREY HERBST | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Beijing's Coalition of the Willing
For the West, failed states are a problem. For China, they're an opportunity.
BY STEFAN HALPER | JULY/AUGUST 2010
A Literal Disaster
Things are just what they seem in the Central African Republic.
BY GRAEME WOOD | JULY/AUGUST 2010
The Worst of the Worst
Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.
BY GEORGE B.N. AYITTEY | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Mogadishu Was a Blast
Our trip to the world’s most failed state -- by way of Kandahar.
BY ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN, FELIX KUEHN | JULY/AUGUST 2010
In the Beginning, There Was Somalia
Two decades later, the U.S. still has no plan.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY/AUGUST 2010
There Is No Congo
Why the only way to help Congo is to stop pretending it exists.
BY JEFFREY HERBST, GREG MILLS | MARCH 18, 2009
Why I Keep Going Back to Somalia
What the world's most dangerous place looks like behind the screen of bullets.
BY JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | MARCH 18, 2009
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
May/June 2013
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