{"id":561,"date":"2010-09-01T15:06:06","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T15:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/http:\/\/carleton.ca\/install\/?p=561"},"modified":"2025-08-13T10:28:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T14:28:54","slug":"pakistan-after-the-flooding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/2010\/pakistan-after-the-flooding\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan &#8211; after the flooding"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Pakistan &#8211; after the flooding\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>I n a prescient article forewarning what would become the most crucial issue in determining the Canadian mission\u2019s success in Afghanistan, Stewart Bell made a persuasive case in 2004 for Pakistan as \u201cthe world\u2019s most dangerous country.\u201d Four years later, in January 2008, following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, an Economist editorial argued that democracy offered the best chance for bringing stability to what the magazine called \u201cthe world\u2019s most dangerous place.\u201d In our analysis, Pakistan belongs to a group of second-tier countries, which though not being outright failures, are particularly vulnerable in certain aspects of \u201cstateness.\u201d Our fragility rankings have ranked Pakistan as one of the top 20 fragile states in the world in most years during the past two decades. Most analysts believe that the country\u2019s political and security situation has now been severely worsened by the floods<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/132\/1300-1.pdf\">Pakistan &#8211; after the flooding<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I n a prescient article forewarning what would become the most crucial issue in determining the Canadian mission\u2019s success in Afghanistan, Stewart Bell made a persuasive case in 2004 for Pakistan as \u201cthe world\u2019s most dangerous country.\u201d Four years later, in January 2008, following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, an Economist editorial argued that democracy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-governance-democracy-processes-reports-and-briefs"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/cifp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}