GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 THIS EVENT HAS PASSED — WATCH THE ARCHIVED VIDEO ONLINE ABOUT Following a tumultuous year around the globe, Brazil, Cameroon, Nicaragua, Togo, the United Kingdom, Venezuela, and Yemen are among the countries to have been assessed as the world’s most-worsened countries in 2019 according to the Fragile States Index […]
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Always Look on the Bright Side
- 06 April 2019
BY J.J. MESSNER According to the famed philosopher, Eric Idle, one should always look on the bright side of life. “If life seems jolly rotten,” Mr. Idle would have us know, “There’s something you’ve forgotten.”1 From the perspective of the Fragile States Index (FSI), when the constant stream of the 24-hour news cycle peddles continual […]
The Sad Song of Venezuela
- 06 April 2019
BY CHARLES FIERTZ When the famed Chilean author, Isabel Allende, had to leave her native country in the wake of the military coup against leftist president Salvador Allende in 1973, she and her family fled to the safety and stability of Venezuela, then a beacon among the tumult of Latin America. In a recent interview, […]
Brazil’s Slide Continues and Takes a Lurch to the Right
- 06 April 2019
BY CHARLES FIERTZ As Brazil continues its 5-year slide of worsening on the Fragile States Index (FSI), this year marks the country’s sharpest year-on-year decline yet, seeing it tie for most-worsened country. Dashing tentative hopes for reversal and recovery that had emerged at the end of 2017, 2018 saw the collapse of the first shoots […]
Yemen Takes Top Position as Most Fragile State
- 06 April 2019
BY CHRISTINA MURPHY As much as we try to focus on the performance of individual countries on their own terms, there is an unavoidable curiosity and interest attached to the rankings of the Fragile States Index (FSI), and specifically to the country that ranks “top.” In the history of the FSI, only three countries had […]