Germany Fragile States Index Analyze

Name Instructor Course Date Germany Fragile States Index Background The FSI country Rank for Germany in 2019 is 167 out of 178 Countries, which indicates that is among the 15 least fragile states in the ranking, and there has been improvement in the overall trend in the past 13 year (Fragile States Index). The ranking and scores reflect the livelihoods of the people focusing on different indicators and the overall score based on different indicators showed that the country’s performance has improved. Cohesion Political cohesion across the is a concern as the hard left and right gain more power against the liberal center and take more hard line positions and are less willing to negotiate with the political rivals. The migrant crisis and increased number of refugees is creating a major schism between those supporting refugees and those who seek tighter control on immigration, and there have been more attacks on refugees and fragmentation there have been proposals to give the federal policy and security apparatus more power following recent terrorist threats and attacks in the country. Tension has been growing especially in the east with regards with how to deal with asylum seekers and nationalist parties have performed better than ever before, partly because of the anti-immigrant platforms. Economic Germany is the largest economy in Europe, but the economy has been declining and there slow growth to export markets will affect the country’s competitiveness and growth potentials (Kagan ). The German economy is highly dependent on export growth, at a time when there is weak outlook Eurozone growth and increased global protectionism (Jolly). Younger Germans are increasingly moving abroad, where there is a larger share of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers many without German language skills and skills that can be easily transferable into the German labor market, but still lucky to be in a safer country (Aceuedo). Despite political parties having distinct ideologies there is broad support for market-friendly policies. Political Germany is politically stable and the leading player in the EU with a solid economic framework and political freedoms. There is low level corruption and the country ranks highly in transparency and accountability at 80/ 100 and ranked 11th out of 180 countries (Transparency International) Nonetheless, there are major political challenges such as long-term population declines and growing tensions from an increasingly multicultural society and this is worsened by the migrant crisis affecting Europe as well as the ongoing income inequalities between the east and west. Even the mainstream parties increasingly support tough anti-migration laws as there has been growing public distrust of politicians (Scally and (Will). German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Christian Democratic...