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The brief highlights how a fragility lens can help address gender inequalities, forced displacement, and context-specific challenges.
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In "State Fragility and Development Cooperation," Martin-Shields & Koester draw on the #FragileStatesIndex to explore how tragility measures can intorm policy and development planning.

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In "State Fragility and Development Cooperation," Martin-Shields & Koester draw on the #FragileStatesIndex to explore how fragility measures can intorm policy and development planning.

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Although the recent U.S. election was mostly peaceful, political tensions and the potential for systemic political violence remain concerns.

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At The Fund for Peace, we recognize the importance of collaborative research in understanding conflict dynamics, strengthening preparedness, and identifying opportunities to support multistakeholder planning initiatives to prevent violence before it escalates.

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The authors conclude changes in fragility do not consistently or linearly affect FDI due to the role of counter-cyclical investment behaviors.
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In “Fragility as Opportunity: Counter-Cyclical Dynamics of Foreign Direct Investment,” Karakaya, Tunca, and Balcioglu (2026) use the #FragileStatesIndex to examine the relationship between state fragility and FDI across 171 countries from 2006 to 2020.

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The authors find that factionalized elites, deepened by post-2016 purges and growing political polarization, are the main driver, with external intervention acting as a "multiplier" that amplifies the country's domestic vulnerabilities.

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In “Structural Analysis of State Fragility in Turkey: A MICMAC Approach, 2006–2024,” Saffari et al. use #FragileStatesIndex data to examine the evolution of state fragility in Türkiye from 2006 to 2024.

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Using the 12 FSI indicators and MICMAC structural analysis, the study identifies key drivers and interconnections shaping Türkiye’s fragility system.

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In "Mapping Supreme Audit Institutions, Accountability & Good Governance," Romão et al. (2026) use the #FragileStatesIndex to classify 189 countries by accountability and governance profile, identifying the overall FSI score as one of the most critical variables for clustering.

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In poorer countries, deep religious divisions are linked to higher fragility, especially where two large groups compete over scarce resources, pointing to weak governance and poor resource management as the real drivers.

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When does diversity become fragility? Zsuzsanna Bacsi uses The Fund for Peace's Fragile States Index to measure fragility in 94 countries across 2010, 2015 and 2020.

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She finds that diversity itself doesn't drive fragility — what matters is how a society is divided and the ability of the state to manage those divisions well.

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Higher fragility is associated with increased air pollution (specifically PM2.5, a fine particulate), with economic and political fragility showing the strongest effects.

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In “How Does State Fragility Drive Environmental Degradation?”, Barra, Esposito and Falcone use the #FragileStatesIndex to examine the link between state fragility and environmental degradation.