EXTERNAL SECURITY
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neighboring countries?
Values reflect a 2010 assessment of relations with neighboring countries ranging from 1 (very poor) to 5 (very good) by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Source: Institute for Economics and Peace, Global Peace Index 2010.
Relations with neighbors scores
Relations with neighbors scores
External securityRelations with neighbors
To ensure comparability, observed values are transformed into SGI scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The lowest value translates into score 1, the best value into score 10. Remaining values are transformed according to the original data distribution.
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Score
| 1 | Australia | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Austria | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Belgium | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Chile | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Czech Rep. | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Denmark | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Finland | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | France | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Germany | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Iceland | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Ireland | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Italy | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Luxembourg | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Netherlands | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | New Zealand | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Norway | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Portugal | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Spain | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Sweden | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | Switzerland | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 1 | UK | 1.0 | 10.00 |
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| 22 | Canada | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 22 | Greece | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 22 | Hungary | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 22 | Mexico | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 22 | Slovakia | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 22 | USA | 2.0 | 5.50 |
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| 28 | Turkey | 2.5 | 3.25 |
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| 29 | Japan | 3.0 | 1.00 |
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| 29 | Poland | 3.0 | 1.00 |
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| 29 | South Korea | 3.0 | 1.00 |
10
Key concepts
A globalized, multipolar world has complicated efforts to ensure national security. Traditional defense policies are increasingly giving way to a focus on multilateral agreements and deployments.
During the period under review, ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan defined many nations’ security policies, whether through participation or opposition. In some cases, popular resistance to these deployments has triggered reviews of national defense strategies.
Shifting balances of power, driven by forces including China’s economic and military, Russia’s influence in Eastern Europe, and the chaotic effect of North Korean bluster, has put new strains on old bilateral and multilateral defense agreements.
Performance comparison
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