To the dismay of some readers of this blog Jordan is not a failed state. According to the Foreign Policy Index of failed States, published for the third year in the well respected American magazine "Foreign Policy" Jordan does not rank among the 60 failed states of the world which includes seven Arab countries, topped by Sudan.   The Index was developed by the Fund for Peace an independent research... [read more]

The world's mot prominent organization specialized in monitoring and evaluating states of corruption at the global level is Transparency International (TI) which has just released its Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2006, where Jordan was ranked 40th in the world and described by the index categories as in "worsening state".   The 2006 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) points to a strong... [read more]