INTERNATIONAL: Failed states test international system

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  • Defining state
  • State failure
  • Violence
  • Dismantled states
  • Poor or absent infrastructure
  • Collapse of state revenues
  • Collapse of educational and health systems
  • Broken government versus failed states
  • Strong societies and weak states
  • Failed state paradox
  • Out of failure
  • Good governance
  • Insulating economic development
  • State loyalty through contractualism

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