The World's Problems Make a Lot More Sense if You Think of it as a Giant Failed State (Vox)

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In comments given to the London School of Economics Diplomacy Commission, Barder asked the audience to imagine a country that had no way to collect taxes, no police force, no ability to provide even emergency health care to its citizens, and no ability to enforce any of the laws it decides to make. That's the textbook definition of a failed state.

"But," Barder writes, "that is an almost exact description of the state of our global institutions."

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