Timor Leste is no Failing State but 11th ASEAN Member in Waiting This is all grist to the mill for many a Timor watcher who was consigned the country to an arc of instability alongside Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Bobby Anderson 2018 If the country continues on the current trajectory of waste corruption and fraud in public spending it will be a failed state in less than five years Fredrik Galtung 2017 Timor Leste is no Failing State but 11th ASEAN Member in Waiting This is all grist to the mill for many a Timor watcher who was consigned the country to an arc of instability alongside Papua New Guinea Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Bobby Anderson 2018 If the country continues on the ...current trajectory of waste corruption and fraud in public spending it will be a failed state in less than five years Fredrik Galtung 2017