Foreign Policy Magazine

The 2010 Failed States Index

Introduction

The Rankings

12 Degrees of Failure

Reality Check: Just how bad off are they?

Watch List: 4 countries in big trouble

Somalia: The Original Failed State

James Traub on why the U.S. still can't figure it out

Postcard from Mogadishu

Prime Numbers: The Pirate Den

The Bad Guys

Paul Collier: Dictators

George B.N. Ayittey: The World's 23 Worst Tyrants

Jeffrey Herbst: The United Nations

Stefan Halper: China

Boubacar Boris Diop: The French

Robert D. Kaplan: Mountains

Plus: Mo Ibrahim, Paul Wolfowitz, Bruce Babbitt

Night of the Living Wonks

Toward an international relations theory of zombies.

BY DANIEL W. DREZNER

Ronald Reagan

The Gipper wasn’t the warhound his conservative followers would have you believe.

BY PETER BEINART

Misreading Tehran

Foreign Policy asked several leading Iranian-American authors to revisit the hype and the hope in a year’s worth of writings about Iran’s upheaval.

Ramadan

The geopolitics of the world’s other biggest holiday.

By Vali Nasr

Opening gambit: Bubble bath

By Chrystia Freeland

The List: The known unknowns

Epiphanies from Nathan Myhrvold

Where left means right

Location, location, location

"Failed states": a brief history

How to be a Middle East technocrat

By David Kenner

History Lesson: The people’s capsule

By Charles Homans

Man Without a Plan

Harvard’s Stephen M. Walt and former Mideast negotiator Nabil Fahmy ask Aaron David Miller: If not a peace process, then what?

Food Fight

Author Anna Lappe and Population Action International’s Jeffrey Locke say Robert Paarlberg’s faith in industrial agriculture is misplaced.

Time Bomb

Demographer Richard Cincotta wonders why Charles Kenny is still fighting a centuries-old battle over Thomas Malthus.

Wiring Democracy

Nicholas Negroponte of the One Laptop Per Child program thinks Evgeny Morozov isn’t giving the Internet enough credit.