CPO-2002 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Contract Theory, Supreme Revolutionary Council (Madagascar), Nash Equilibrium
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Nation: group of people who share some sort of common identity like a language, a religion, an ethnicity, or a shared history. Nation-state: state in which a single nation predominates and the legal, social, demographic, and geographic boundaries of the state are connected in important ways to that nation. State: entity that uses coercion and the threat of force to rule in a given territory. Failed state: state-like entity that cannot coerce and is unable to successfully control the inhabitants of a given territory. No army, no state bureaucracy, no police forces, no state provisions. 14 failed attempts to establish national government since 1991. Transitional federal government recognized by foreign countries: only controls small part of capital. Failure precipitated by a civil war (traced back to inter-state war with ethiopia) Formed through merger of somaliland (britain) and somalia (italy) in 1960.
