Even they cannot achieve much in a completely failed state, but they tend to flourish in places where there is some internal debate between different levels of government and private interests.
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This may result in a post-Assad Syria that is a failed state in which Islamic radicals and Iranian agents with little interest in a liberal order flourish.
The country Musharraf took over from the civilians in 1999 was close to a failed state, especially in terms of its international financial standing.
As a nascent and profitable industry in a failed and starving state, the Somali pirates will not lack for recruits.
Failure to act could result in Syria becoming a failed state, riven by extremist violence and sectarian conflict, he said.
In many ways, Haiti is a failed state: the latest chapter in its long history of strife saw the ousting of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in February.
Every single nation in the region, to include Syria and Iran, do not want a failed state in Iraq.
In 2001, Pakistan was a failed state propped up by a military dictatorship with nuclear weapons.
First of all, with its largely illiterate population of 165 million, in most respects Pakistan is a failed state.
" Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state, " he said.
In 2007, it remains a failed state with nuclear weapons, but now it is ruled by a failed military dictator threatened by the Taliban.
Some critics dismiss the sessions as little more than political grandstanding for conservative voters in a state where Obama failed to carry a single county in either of his presidential races.
Although the country is frequently depicted in the international media as a failed state, and India, its neighbor and rival, as a burgeoning superpower, the distinction is not always so clear on the ground.
One scenario is that Syria becomes a failed state in which Mr. Assad maintains control of northern Syria and continues cooperating with Iran and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, with other parts controlled by al Qaeda elements and the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood.
In 2007, Dutschke failed in his bid as a Republican to defeat Democratic state representative Steve Holland, whose mother, a judge, received one of the ricin-tainted letters.
In the face of growing extremism in the region, while Pakistan has been dubbed as a failed state, the Pakistanis have been accused of indulging in rabid nationalism by the foreign media which has been awash with references of 'Islamic barbarians'.
The possible outcomes in Syria include the emergence of a failed state, stirring unrest throughout the region.
They increasingly question the point of the PA. It has failed to usher in a Palestinian state, and appears powerless to prevent Israeli military incursions or the relentless expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
On 25 November, the BBC World Service is broadcasting a special one-hour debate in front of a Kinshasa audience: Is DR Congo a failed state?
Leaders of ASEAN may finally be waking up to what is happening in the neighborhood: the prospect of a failed state.
New York City, the country's largest school district, is one of only a handful of districts in the state that lost money because it failed to hammer out an agreement with its union by a Jan. 17 deadline.
The overhaul law provided that the federal government would step in and run the new markets if a state failed to do so.
They included Fernando Collor, a former president forced out in 1992 over corruption allegations, who failed to make a comeback as governor of his home state of Alagoas.
But Mr Farage's decision to step down as leader for a tilt at the bigger prize of a seat at Westminster backfired when he failed to unseat Commons Speaker John Bercow in Buckingham, leaving him in a curious state of limbo.
For their part, pro-Palestinian lobbyists Robert Malley and Hussein Agha are now arguing that the two-state solution has failed and that the time has come for a one-state solution in which Israel ceases to exist as a Jewish state by accepting the Palestinians as full citizens in one binational state.
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So our strategy is in one sense working, but it means we've got to be vigilant in every part of the world where there is a failed state or a failing state, which creates space for a terrorist group to operate.
Local media have been reporting that Carlos Pascual, a Cuban-American expert on Europe and a former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, is Obama's choice, but the fact that he wrote a report for the Brookings Institute on Iraq and the importance of reconstructing a failed state wasn't well received in political and government circles.
Soon it will become a failed and ignored state, as it was in the years before September 11, 2001.
The U.S. Joint Forces Command lumped Mexico in the same category as Pakistan and worried it was becoming a failed state.
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Political events in Italy will also be in focus after a divided parliament failed to elect a new head of state on Thursday.
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