Researchers at Oxford University claim that more poor people live in eight states of India than in the 26 poorest African countries combined.Lastly, Asia has its failed, rogue and nuclear-tipped states, none ghastlier than North Korea.
It is a fine judgment whether a rogue state or a failed state, prey to the barbarities that jihadists are trying to inflict on Iraq now but without hindrance, would have been the worse prospect.
Georgia is neither a rogue state, nor (as yet) a failed one.
A rogue state under Assad has become a failed state, whose map is changing almost daily and whose neighbours are attempting to exert their own spheres of influence.
At least at first sight the causes of such new wars lie often in nationalist, ethnic and/or religious tensions or internal instabilities of failed or rogue states (Weber 2007) rather than a particular international political system.
He attacked failed markets, rogue employers and landlords, defusing attacks by frankly admitting that Labour didn't build enough housing and shouldn't have followed the US into Iraq, reminding viewers it was he who prevented Cameron's Syrian adventure.
Overwhelming military dominance is designed to discourage and intimidate the three main threats to American global supremacy: failed states, rogue states and the other major powers - China, Russia, Japan and the European Union.
That includes our interest in obtaining allied assistance in the continuing work of shrinking the number of failed or rogue states and increasing the number of states seeking freedom and prosperity, but always conscious of the moral and material limits on our power.
Furthermore, should we evaluate these coercive activities in their current form where the international world is populated by rogue states, failed and failing states, and burdened societies or should we evaluate these coercive activities based on how they would operate with a genuine Society of Peoples?
The country's perceived enemies are viciously attacked: Pakistan is derided as a "terrorist," "rogue," and "failed" state (in fact, a friend of Arnab's says he'd be happy to see Indian bombs fall on Islamabad); the novelist Arundhati Roy was branded "disgusting"; a Greenpeace activist was mocked for wanting to travel to the UK.
