The Failed States Index 2010: Worst Travel Destinations this Summer
When Dinner Topics was created, we promised to keep you up to date on whatever is in the news from pop stars to politics, and this week we are really showing our range with topics from BP to Apple to Australia to Hollywood marriages. Now we move on to the Failed States Index to make sure you haven’t booked that Somalian vacation just yet.
The Failed States Index is an annual list, compiled by the magazine Foreign Policy and the think tank Fund for Peace, of countries based on each country’s ability to function as a sovereign1 state. The index uses indicators such as demographic pressures, uneven economic development, and widespread violation of human rights to rate the world’s nations. Here are the top ten most unstable countries in the world.
- Somalia
- Chad
- Sudan
- Zimbabwe
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Afghanistan
- Iraq
- Central African Republic
- Guinea
- Pakistan
Read on:
Foreign Policy’s photogallery called Postcards from Hell
Foreign Policy’s Interactive Map
Fund for Peace’s Failed States Index Page
- for the vocabulary-challenged, “sovereign” is a fancy way of saying the state rules itself and doesn’t have to answer to a higher rule ↩
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