The Periodic Table of States
Foreign Policy |
We are pleased to present the first iteration of the Periodic Table of States (PTOS). Just as natural elements are scattered around the planet in varying degrees of abundance or scarcity, their salient characteristics are elegantly captured in the periodic table of elements. The analogous PTOS has been designed as a meta-index of more than two dozen fundamental metrics grouped into the categories of strength and stateness, with the sum of those scores representing a state’s overall stability.