Greece drifts towards becoming a failed state inside the EZ and Debt:GDP stays close to 160%.
But its future success, and the avoidance of a failed state, is a vital American interest now.
In 1994 the U.S. began pulling out of Somalia, leaving a failed state with no central government.
Somalia has endured appalling suffering during recent decades and has become the classic example of a failed state.
"But I balance that against Uribe and his administration's rescue of Colombia from a failed state status, " he said.
It keeps tribes from going out and disintegrating and creating a failed state.
" Mexico is in no danger of becoming a failed state, " he said.
The Solomon Islands faces the prospect of becoming the Pacific's first failed state.
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Just over a decade ago, Georgia was almost a failed state, struggling to provide its people with water and electricity.
Leaders of ASEAN may finally be waking up to what is happening in the neighborhood: the prospect of a failed state.
And so a Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to us.
He said the best way to honour the sacrifice made by British troops was to ensure Afghanistan does not become a failed state.
For the first time, the debate was not about moral imperatives, but plain national interest: the threat of Congo becoming another failed state.
The country Musharraf took over from the civilians in 1999 was close to a failed state, especially in terms of its international financial standing.
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?
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.
Colombia, a country which was starting to look like a failed state during the late 1990s, is generally moving in the right direction under the current government.
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These stories and statistics belie the common image of Mexico as an almost-failed state whose chronic instability is spilling over to the U.S. side of the border.
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The Democrats have long argued that vouchers undermine public schools, and say the public largely does not support the concept, citing several failed state referendums in the 2000 election.
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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As for Somalia - whose position along the Gulf of Aden provides it a similarly critical maritime posture - Iran has been exploiting its condition as a failed state for several years.
He and Uribe turned the tide in a complicated and costly conflict, at 47 years the longest in the Western Hemisphere, that had very nearly turned Colombia into a failed state.
Plus we would probably destabilise the whole of Sudan which is the size of Western Europe and the last thing we want is a failed state the size of Western Europe on our hands in Africa.
The attack on a high-profile event in the heart of the capital is seen as a big symbolic blow to Somalia's attempts to reinvent itself on the international stage after years as a failed state.
His words were echoed by the UN-Arab League envoy for Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, who told the New York gathering that Syria would become a failed state unless a negotiated political solution to the conflict could be found.
Among his recent publications are Liberia: Portrait of a Failed State (Reed Press, 2004), which has been critically acclaimed by Foreign Affairs, Worldview, Wilson Quarterly, American Foreign Policy Interests, and other scholarly publications, and Child Soldiers, Adult Interests: The Global Dimensions of the Sierra Leonean Tragedy (Nova Science Publishers, 2005).
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.
While it is vital to recognize that the failed two-state solution must be abandoned, it is equally important that it not be replaced with another failed proposition.
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