Sierra Leone: Fixing Failed States - A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World, What Lessons are There for Country?

opinion

In the Fixing Failed States Book by Ashraf Ghani and Clare Lockhart, the attention of nations and the international community is brought to the realization and the need to be self-critical of the continued national and global insecurity caused by unresolved capability issues in states to supply basic public services to their people.

It provides a compelling and informed conceptualization of what a real sovereign state is as opposed to nominal characterization of sovereignty. Their "sovereignty gap" abstraction is a useful metaphorical lens to the understanding of the dire situation in which the masses live in Third World nations.

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