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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