Failed states worldwide report 2012

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Somalia tops failed states index for fifth year

Six African nations are in the top 10 of an annual failed-state index, including Somalia, which heads the list for the fifth straight year after continued struggles with lawlessness and piracy.

Somalia tops the 2012 Failed States Index because of “widespread lawlessness, ineffective government, terrorism, insurgency, crime, and well-publicized pirate attacks against foreign vessels,” the list’s compiler, Washington-based nonprofit Fund for Peace, said on its website Monday.

The group’s eighth annual list, which ranks instability risks of 177 nations based on 12 social, economic and political indicators, was published Monday by Foreign Policy magazine. Nations ranking high on the list aren’t necessarily failed states, but are facing enormous pressure stemming from factors such as uneven development, economic decline and human-rights issues, according to Fund for Peace.

The top 10 nations on the 2012 Failed States Index are:

1) Somalia

2) Democratic Republic of Congo

3) Sudan

4) Chad

5) Zimbabwe

6) Afghanistan

7) Haiti

8) Yemen

9) Iraq

10) Central African Republic

See Foreign Policy's interactive Failed States Index map

Foreign Policy magazine notes that Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is enjoying a period of relative peace. CNN has reported that African Union troops last year pushed Al-Shabaab, an Islamic militant group affiliated with al Qaeda, out of central Mogadishu after years of bitter urban fighting.

But battles between the groups continue elsewhere in Somalia. And last week, the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama for the first time publicly stated that U.S. military forces are engaged in direct action against suspected terrorists in Somalia.

The biggest shifts happened outside the top 10 - mostly rankings of countries that experienced uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East last year. The worst decline was in Libya, which went from well outside the top 60 to No. 50 "as a result of civil war, a NATO-led campaign of airstrikes and the toppling of the (Gadhafi) regime," the Fund for Peace said.

Syria, where an uprising has endured for more than a year, registered the fourth-greatest single-year jump in the index's history (from No. 48 in 2011 to No. 23 in 2012).

Haiti, which jumped to the top 10 last year after 2010's devastating earthquake, is the list's sole Western Hemisphere representative in the top 10.

Other notable rankings: Pakistan, No. 13; North Korea, No. 22; Iran, No. 34; United States, No. 159. Finland was considered the most stable, at No. 177.

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[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Give the Republicans a few more years and we'll make that list! USA! USA! USA!

[JohnR! 5,495]

I am sorry but your map is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...

It shows Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Finland as the most stable countries?!?!?!

That can't possibly be true! How in the world do you expect anyone to believe these socialist countries are stable?

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5 of the top 13 countries are havens for Al Qaeda

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I am sorry but your map is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...

It shows Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Finland as the most stable countries?!?!?!

That can't possibly be true! How in the world do you expect anyone to believe these socialist countries are stable?

Not to mention that out of these socialist countries, Germans actually have more faith in the free market economy than Americans. As do the Chinese and Brazilians, by the way. See what Obama is doing? He's turning Americans into commies!

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[JohnR! 5,495]

:rofl:

Not to mention that out of these socialist countries, Germans actually have more faith in the free market economy than Americans. As do the Chinese and Brazilians, by the way. See what Obama is doing? He's turning Americans into commies!

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I am sorry but your map is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...

It shows Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Finland as the most stable countries?!?!?!

That can't possibly be true! How in the world do you expect anyone to believe these socialist countries are stable?

I ran out of +'s for the day so you get a

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Don't you think that many of these African countries would have been better off remaining under colonialism?

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Give the Republicans a few more years and we'll make that list! USA! USA! USA!

The president is of what political party? What political party has the majority in the Senate? Now try again but this time do it when your sober.

[Danno 1,228]

I am sorry but your map is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong...

It shows Australia, Canada, Germany, Switzerland, Ireland, Sweden, Norway and Finland as the most stable countries?!?!?!

That can't possibly be true! How in the world do you expect anyone to believe these socialist countries are stable?

Your point well taken, that why I reject the notion that Socialist forces destroyed Detroit.

IF true, why are the street lights on in Helsinki and it is perfectly safe to walk the streets at any time?