KRASNER, under the paradigm of international structure and foreign policy, gave the broader and deeper features of comparison between weaker and stronger states. He has given numerous examples of today’s failing states and has compared them with the stronger and successful states of the world. He explicitly mentioned the salient characteristics of the failing states in today’s global world asunder.
The failing states are those that pose a serious threat to the security of the world. They pose a challenge to the liberties, lives, property, and human rights of the world’s free societies. These countries confront the foreign societies of the liberal world with all sorts of risks and dangers. These states are vulnerable to collapse even before and after their conflicts. The staunch examples of such states are Cuba, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, South Korea, and Syria.
Terrorism, narcotics trade, weapons mass proliferation, and state crimes are the hallmarks of these countries. These states are hate givers and hatemongers. Unfortunately, all these failures and weaker states are the poorest of the poor states in the world. This was in this context, that al-qaida from Afghanistan operated in 2001, against the US, the world’s single super power, and deprived the whole of Asia of security and peace of mind.
The other main differences between the stronger successful and the weaker failing states are the governance issues. The weaker states are marred with corruption, nepotism, and despotism. Whereas the stronger states have rule of law, security of life, merit, and democracy in their countries. Weaker states have low education and very weak economies. On the contrary, stronger countries have the highest rate of education and the strongest economies. Weaker states can seldom take advantage of global economic relations.
KRASNER has broadly defined the weaker states as unsustainable and dependent on others. The examples can be numerously given from Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. This is the burden of the first or the developed world to sustain and nurture the weaker states. These states are required to integrate the weaker states in their policy. The international aid agency has to work out stronger access and approach to the failing states.
The stronger states of the world like the USA, EU, and non-EU European states owe their responsibility to develop and sustain the weaker states of Asia and Africa. Democracy, rule of law, governance, economic strength, technology, and merit are the main differences pointed out by KRASNER between weaker and stronger states of the world under the framework of foreign relations. The international structure has to imbibe and assimilate the failing weaker states for the larger benefit of the entire humanity of the world.