Comments on: Ecuador, Peru, and the Failed States Index Map http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/ Dispatches from Bangkok Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:42:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Miguel (MABB) http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-426 Miguel (MABB) Wed, 17 Aug 2005 09:14:36 +0000 http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-426 One suggestion. Take a look at these two sites. There you can get the, more or less, reasons why Bolivia is not yet included. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3109 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3111 One suggestion. Take a look at these two sites. There you can get the, more or less, reasons why Bolivia is not yet included.

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3109

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=3111

]]> By: boz http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-425 boz Wed, 17 Aug 2005 01:18:55 +0000 http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-425 Just found your site via Global Voices. A while back I published two posts linking to articles on the failed states index and some of the problems with it: http://bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/2005/06/index-of-failed-states-fails.html http://bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/2005/07/followup-on-failed-states-index.html They really failed to capture the right tone on Latin America. You're right, for the region, Bolivia should definitely been up there and probably above Peru and Ecuador but still well below Haiti, which is the only completely "failed state" in the Western Hemisphere. I can see a case for placing Colombia possibly in the top 50, but definitely NOT in the top 20. A good case for ranking in the top 50 on failed statehood can be made for Cuba, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic as well. Overall, it's an index that tried too hard to rank all states on some common standard, and managed to fail a common sense test. Just found your site via Global Voices.

A while back I published two posts linking to articles on the failed states index and some of the problems with it:
http://bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/2005/06/index-of-failed-states-fails.html
http://bloggingsbyboz.blogspot.com/2005/07/followup-on-failed-states-index.html

They really failed to capture the right tone on Latin America. You’re right, for the region, Bolivia should definitely been up there and probably above Peru and Ecuador but still well below Haiti, which is the only completely “failed state” in the Western Hemisphere. I can see a case for placing Colombia possibly in the top 50, but definitely NOT in the top 20. A good case for ranking in the top 50 on failed statehood can be made for Cuba, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic as well. Overall, it’s an index that tried too hard to rank all states on some common standard, and managed to fail a common sense test.

]]> By: Global Voices Online http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-424 Global Voices Online Tue, 16 Aug 2005 21:31:03 +0000 http://newley.com/2005/07/30/ecuador-peru-and-the-failed-states-index-map/#comment-424 <strong>Bolivia: Failed States Index Map</strong> Newley Purnell wants to know why Bolivia isn’t on the Foreign Policy Failed States Index Map while Ecuador and Peru are. ... Bolivia: Failed States Index Map

Newley Purnell wants to know why Bolivia isn’t on the Foreign Policy Failed States Index Map while Ecuador and Peru are.

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