Vietnam in Failed States Index 2005-2006

Abstract

The Failed States Index (FSI) is an annual report published by the Fund for Peace (of United States) on the magazine Foreign Policy since 2005. Since then, the report is welcomed annually. There are critical opinions of it, but most scholars and states, including the states who are ranked negatively, still recognize the relative objectivity of this method of evaluating the failed state. At least this is the basis for each state to evaluate itself. Even United States also has not been classified in good rank since 2005 until now, despite its position as number one superpower. Of course, like other think tanks, the Fund for Peace makes the research on ranking the failed states for their strategic demand first of all. But this does not mean they don’t care for the objectivity and the scientific importance of the problem. The reactions of the public certainly is a basis for the perfection of research.

Since 2005 up to now, although Vietnam is among the states ranked in “warning” zone of the index table, but it is always among 50 states having the failure index and always is evaluated as much more successful than China. This demonstrates that Vietnam has achieved the significantly positive results in economic reform, in containing the inflation, and in macroscale political stability. According to the failed states index, Vietnam is the fourth successful state in ASEAN countries. Although the growth speed of its economy still is sometimes high sometimes low, but it has not political unstableness, and its socio-economic changes are still in the limits that don’t change much the rank of component indicators.