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After an era of pax globalization, we’re returning to a system where state actors are central, making their policies all the more important

IN his seminal work, How Asia Works? Success And Failures In The World’s Most Dynamic Region, Joe Studwell writes that in the early 1950s China was not only agriculturally inefficient, but also internationally alienated in terms of trade. The Chinese policy of “collectivisation of farming” was all that the Chinese knew in the communist state. The rise in unemployment and poverty along with a surge in population was unstoppable and seemed to be almost impossible to handle. It was then that the visionary Deng Xioaping (1978-89) appeared on the political horizon of the country. He observed...

Introduction If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing State, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion, on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless State. He pointed to the absence of the monopoly of violence, which is definitive of a State. In Nigeria today, private individua...

If there was any doubt that Nigeria is a failing state, the politics and pathology of the cow business now make it manifestly so. Nigeria is strutting towards a possible implosion on account of growing lawlessness. In spite of many years of denial, leading members of the ruling APC now concede the obvious: Nigeria is largely an ungoverned territory. The Governor of Kaduna State, recently at a national dialogue, pointedly described Nigeria as a lawless state. He pointed to the absence of the monopoly of violence which is definitive of a state. in Nigeria today, private individuals, especially,...