The main responsibility for rebuilding Africa's failed states rests with the people who live there.
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Giving more aid to these failed states will not make the world a safer place.
This is important as rapid population growth is a major factor accounting for failed states.
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Something will have to give and that will be the ejection of one or more financially failed states.
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The collapsed, failed states that harbour terrorism are exactly the places where large-scale foreign aid does not work.
This is true in failed states like Somalia, where terrorism and piracy is joined by famine and human suffering.
Failed states always cause misery, but only sometimes are they a global threat.
Other countries have statistical data that are incomplete, but "normally they fall into the category of extremely poor or failed states, " Dr. Noland said.
To surmount such problems as terrorism, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and failed states, we need to organize differently and increase our capabilities.
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Unfortunately, nobody, not even Mr Wolf, has yet come up with a good answer to the question of what the world is to do about failed states.
Third, the failed states in Africa and the oxymoronic governments in many African nations create serious politico-military vacuums that terrorists groups can fill and exploit for nefarious ends.
The success of the peacemaking mission in Sierra Leone has given heart to all who think that the rich world's military power should be used to rescue "failed states".
"The wider risks to our interests and way of life, whether from terrorists, failed states, conflict between other states, nuclear proliferation, climate change and competition for resources are growing, " he said.
The piracy is a symbol of the anarchy in Somalia and other failed states that has made even the smallest and most primitive lands a threat to the most powerful and sophisticated nations.
But a contractor currently working in Iraq said via e-mail that the military "could not likely handle" the reconstruction effort alone because its main focus is on fighting wars and security matters, not rebuilding collapsed or failed states.
Many like Mr Ignatieff are ready to lend support to the idea of an American empire, moved by a desire to bring people living in failed states out of their disorder and misery, and believing that only America can run such an empire.
And we can watch the movie in reverse when violence erupts in zones of anarchy, such as the Wild West, failed states and neighborhoods controlled by mafias and street gangs, who can't call 911 or file a lawsuit to resolve their disputes but have to administer their own rough justice.
We have a set of challenges that require NATO to shift from the 20th century to the 21st century -- issues of terrorism, failed states, nuclear proliferation -- a whole host of new challenges, as well as the traditional role that NATO has played in preserving the territorial integrity of NATO members.
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Mr Kerry also says he would open bilateral talks with North Korea and Iran, appoint presidential envoys to the Middle East and for nuclear proliferation, boost aid to failed states, spend more on public diplomacy, stop research and development of new nuclear weapons and even give all Americans a chance to learn a foreign language.
Democrats even wrote the bill so that if states failed to join new Medicaid, they would lose every federal Medicaid dollar, including the ones for the old program.
What could happen if the United States government failed to meet its obligations?
And since the early 1990s, there have been about a dozen local currencies that have failed in the United States.
It will therefore gladden many a commissioner's heart to hear that the member states have failed to get clean away with their latest intergovernmental hustle.
In 2000 Al Gore, despite being a southerner himself, failed to win any southern states.
The Saudis and Egyptians have already tried this and failed, but the Arab states collectively could try again.
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He married Louise, choosing to adopt two children, Isaac and Jacob, from the United States, after failed IVF treatment.
So too has the failed bid by the United States to play host in 2022 receiving plenty of press.
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From 2001 to 2006, bills proposing adoption of the district system were introduced in many states, but failed to pass, according to the NCSL website.
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