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Greg Mills Explains the Different "State Failures" and Why States Recover

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Greg Mills, author of Why States Recover: Changing Walking Societies into Winning Nations – from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, recently spoke to Polity to share what he discovered during his research process.

 

Mills explains that states fail in different ways, a concept delved into in his book. “I see failure pretty much as a continuum, a spectrum as it were, that you can have bits of excellence side by side with situations of failure which you do have in a country like Kenya for example. Even in South Africa you have this juxtaposition of the first world and the third world.”

 

Mills goes on to say that the book “advances this notion that it’s not just Somali-type failure that we have in so-called fragile states or failed states where you see dramatic collapse and the collapse of government services at large, endemic conflict and warfare for example. It’s also where you have the failure of the states’ responsibility towards it’s own citizens, to actually discharge its democratic responsibilities.”

 

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Toloow intaa qoraagu ka sheegay jamhuuriyada barakakeysan hadii uu ka Sheegi lahaa qolyihii isla-weyn , sow board-Ka may buuxiyeen?

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