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The list has been cited by journalists and academics in making broad comparative points about countries or regions. [2] [3] The report uses 12 factors to determine the rating for each nation, including security threats, economic implosion, human rights violations and refugee flows.
The index's ranks are based on 15 indicators of state vulnerability, grouped by category: Cohesion, Economic, Political, and Social. [4] The ranking is a critical tool in highlighting not only the normal pressures that all states experience, but also in identifying when those pressures are outweighing a state's capacity to manage those pressures.
Countries appearing with a deeper shade of green are ranked as more peaceful, countries appearing more red are ranked as more violent. [ 1 ] The Global Peace Index ( GPI ) is a report produced by the Australia-based NGO Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) which measures the relative position of nations' and regions' peacefulness . [ 2 ]
A fragile state or weak state is a country characterized by weak state capacity or weak state legitimacy leaving citizens vulnerable to a range of shocks. The World Bank, for example, deems a country to be ‘fragile’ if it (a) is eligible for assistance (i.e., a grant) from the International Development Association (IDA), (b) has had a UN peacekeeping mission in the last three years, and (c ...
European leaders will gather Thursday at one of the most renowned havens of tranquility — Spain's Alhambra Palace — in an attempt to fix their increasingly turbulent continent where war and ...
The labeling of states like Somalia or Liberia, as failed states, gives Western countries the legitimization to impose the western idea of a stable nation-state. It is commonly accepted that nation-building or international response to troubled/rogue states happens too late or too quickly which is due to inadequate analysis or lack of political ...
Catalans vote on Sunday in a regional election that could determine the stability of Spain's Socialist-led government and also gauge the strength of a pro-independence movement that has roiled the ...
The explanation given was that in partial democracies are states in which there are more instances of conflict, reform, and concessions; often seen as weakness (see: political opportunity theory, States and Social Revolutions, waves of democracy and waves of revolutions). [3]