Despite formally handing over power on April 12, however, the junta continued to arrest opponents and still wields considerable influence. Scattered fighting between rival armed forces erupted in the capital last week.

Failing states are failing states. The difference between over there and over here, however, is that we have been stacking the deck against ourselves.

There's a powerful new piece of evidence that the war on drugs on the Mexican-American border is a lost cause.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The floods tearing through Pakistan's breadbasket have further weakened this already unstable country, inflicting more economic...

Pakistan's ranking as one of the worst failed states robs the country's often courageous civil society struggles from international support and visibility precisely when they need it most.

What do we make of the cover of Foreign Policy magazine's latest issue, The Committee to Destroy the World? Our foreign policy -- and Foreign Policy -- could perhaps benefit from a little more honest introspection.

Fragile states move in and out of world attention - forgotten and neglected until an al Qaeda operative emerges from a training camp or a natural disa...

The obscenity of this viewing moment -- microphone aimed at the rubble -- has nothing to do with the ethics of the profession, or "ethics" at all. It's infinitely bigger. It' about our relationship to poverty.

Given that a concentrated campaign is underway to ensure that due democratic process is freed from future army interference and Pakistan is stabilized in the face of persistent existentialist threats, decapitating the political system by removing party heads is not smart.

The head of Nigeria's leading lawyers' association has said the country is "gliding toward being a failed state"....

Somalia, Zimbabwe and Sudan topped the list of failed states this year -- rankings based on human rights, governance, economic activity and othe...

More in sorrow than in anger, I see that this utopian social engineering craze could encourage people with guns to use them.

by Farrukh Rehan Every morning I roll out of bed and scan the papers on the net. Today, like most days, I find something distressing about Pakistan. ...

If America once turned on the Afghan allies that helped it defeat the Soviets, many Pakistanis feel, what would stop it from turning on Pakistan?

No one puts Mexico in the same category as a violent, unstable state like Pakistan. No one, that is, except the Pentagon.