Many observers now view the country as a 'failed state'.
But we should lead an international order that confronts the problem of failed states.
Post 9/11 his focus changed again towards research on failed states and governance.
You have a straight face to say Liberia is a failed state.
Since this time some commentators have considered the country a failed state.
What is coming to take its place looks increasingly like a failed state.
Haiti has been a failed state almost from its start 200 years ago.
We cannot simply call what we have done so far success and move on to the next failed state.
As many of you know, three years ago Georgia was basically a failed state.
There is no general consensus on the definition of a failed state.