Failed State

Yet Another Blind Spot in the Afpak Analysis?

Saskia Sassen | Posted 07.29.2010 | World

Read More: Foreign Policy, Asif Ali Zardari, Pakistan Failed State, Abdus Sattar Edhi, Taliban, Pakistan, Failed State, World News

Pakistan's ranking as one of the worst failed states robs the country's often courageous civil society struggles from international support and visibility precisely when they need it most.

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The Color of Failed States

John Feffer | Posted 07.20.2010 | World

Read More: Racism, Evil, Robert Mugabe, Foreign Policy, Failed State, World News

What do we make of the cover of Foreign Policy magazine's latest issue, The Committee to Destroy the World? Our foreign policy -- and Foreign Policy -- could perhaps benefit from a little more honest introspection.

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Dealing with Failed and Failing States

Rob Crilly | Posted 05.03.2010 | World

Read More: Yemen, Sudan, Terrorism, Failed State, Somalia, Uganda, Taliban, Fragile State, Janjaweed, World News

Fragile states move in and out of world attention - forgotten and neglected until an al Qaeda operative emerges from a training camp or a natural disa...

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The California as First "Failed State" Debate: Schwarzenegger, Davis, Whitman, and Jerry Brown

William Bradley | Posted 05.02.2010 | Politics

Is California America's first "failed state?" I asked Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger; the governor he replaced, Gray Davis; and a famous former governor favored to be the next governor, Jerry Brown.

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Empire of the Sunset

Randall Amster | Posted 04.13.2010 | Politics

Read More: Ugly American, Empire, Fear, Military, America, National Security, Elite, Failed State, War, Military Bases, Disaster, Panopticon, Ruling Elite, Imperialism, Power, Politics, Politics News, Politics News

Sometimes, I really miss America -- or at least the idea of it. You know: that can-do spirit, streets paved with gold, champion of the tired and poor,...

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Haiti: The Spectacle

Robert Koehler | Posted 03.23.2010 | World

Read More: History, Colonialism, Haiti Earthquake, France, Failed State, Slavery, Haiti Poverty, United States, Third-World-Debt, World News

The obscenity of this viewing moment -- microphone aimed at the rubble -- has nothing to do with the ethics of the profession, or "ethics" at all. It's infinitely bigger. It' about our relationship to poverty.

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Climate Terror: Global Warming, Failed States, and the Rise of Terrorism

Colin J. Fleming | Posted 03.20.2010 | Green

Read More: Climate Change Terrorism, Somalia, Climate Change, Terrorism, Global Warming, Failed State, Green News

Sadly, the threat of untold misery enveloping the developing world didn't force the West to take climate change seriously. Perhaps the threat of terrorism will.

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Minus One, Two or Three: Pakistani Politics Is Business Unusual

Hisham Wyne | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Spotlight-on-Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif, Democracy-in-Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari, Spotlight on Pakistan, Pakistan Army, Failed State, Democracy in Pakistan, World News

Given that a concentrated campaign is underway to ensure that due democratic process is freed from future army interference and Pakistan is stabilized in the face of persistent existentialist threats, decapitating the political system by removing party heads is not smart.

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Nigeria Nearing Failed State Status, Say Local Lawyers

BBC News | Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Read More: Nigeria, Nigeria Politics, Unrest in Nigeria, Failed State, Nigeria Failed State, World News

The head of Nigeria's leading lawyers' association has said the country is "gliding toward being a failed state"....

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Failed States Present Dangers To International Community (AUDIO)

WorldFocus | Posted 08.22.2009 | World

Read More: Failed States, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Zimbabwe, Foreign Affairs, Failed State, Somalia, Iraq, Advocacy, World News

Somalia, Zimbabwe and Sudan topped the list of failed states this year -- rankings based on human rights, governance, economic activity and othe...

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Will US Army's Development Delusions Cause More Deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan?

William Easterly | Posted 07.20.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq War, Jeffrey Sachs, Department of Defense, Conflict, Afghanistan, Paul Collier, Failed State, US Army, Development, World News

More in sorrow than in anger, I see that this utopian social engineering craze could encourage people with guns to use them.

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Denial-istan

Huffington Post Contributor | Farrukh Rehan | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: U.S., Taliban, Pakistan, Swat Valley, Failed State, Pakistan Drone Attacks, Taliban Swat Valley, Fata, Spotlight on Pakistan, World News

by Farrukh Rehan Every morning I roll out of bed and scan the papers on the net. Today, like most days, I find something distressing about Pakistan. ...

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A Peek at America's Possible Future Pakistan Policy

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Failed State, Pakistan Cricket Attack, Taliban, Barack Obama, Al Qaeda, Mujahideen, Bruce Riedel, Foreign Policy, Jihad, Cia, Sri Lanka Cricket, Pervez Musharraf, Tariq-Ali, Brookings Institution, Soviet Union, World News

If America once turned on the Afghan allies that helped it defeat the Soviets, many Pakistanis feel, what would stop it from turning on Pakistan?

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What If a State Failed and Nobody Cared?

Adam Elkus | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, War on Drugs, Mexico Drug War, National Security, Failed State, Mexico, BORDER ISSUES, World News

No one puts Mexico in the same category as a violent, unstable state like Pakistan. No one, that is, except the Pentagon.

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John McCain's Foreign Policy Blunder

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pakistan Failed State, John McCain, Coup, Pakistan, Barack Obama, Failed State, Politics News

Why aren't people making more of the fact that John McCain was flatly, factually wrong about Pakistan being a "failed state?"

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Major Gaffe: McCain Said Pakistan Was a Failed State

Max Bergmann | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Presidential Debates, McCain Pakistan, Obama Mccain Pakistan, John McCain Gaffe, Pakistan Failed State, Mccain Foreign Policy, Oxford Debate, Mississippi Debate, Pakistan Nuclear Weapons, Failed State, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf, McCain Pakistan Gaffe, McCain Pakistan Failed State, Pakistan Failed State Mccain, Politics News

McCain just badly misstated the history of Pakistan. McCain said Pakistan was a failed state before President Musharraf came to power. That is not true.

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