Preventing failed, fragile states

Published April 21, 2010

As we all know, failed and fragile states have moved to the top of the policy "leaderboard" in recent years.

A number of resource-intensive initiatives have been launched to confront the various problems these states pose, and though there are "only" 30 to 40 fragile states in the world, they do attract a fair amount—some might say a disproportionate amount—of our attention in terms of our...