...This chapter explores the concept of indirect rule, which was defined alternatively as a generic mode of decentralized state authority or as an explicitly violent form of despotism. It looks into the coercive institutions in the West Bank within existing theoretical frameworks of the origins...

...This chapter looks at strategies for governing. Leaders develop an overall view about how state authority ought to be exercised, which can be called their strategy for governing. This strategy includes an understanding about national priorities—that is, the ordering of goals—and also about methods...

...This chapter presents the core theoretical argument of this book: states with incompatible policy interests subvert state authority in the pursuit of foreign policy objectives against their adversaries. This conflictual behavior weakens state authority and impedes state consolidation. The chapter...

...This chapter offers three different tests of implications from this book’s theory. It predicts a relationship between two key conditions—policy incompatibility and the availability of proxy groups—that make subversion likely, and the effects of subversion on state authority. To examine whether...

... victory neither Vietnam nor its new puppet regime exercised any meaningful degree of state authority. Nor was there any state to govern due to the Khmer Rouge’s devastation of the country. This blank-slate-like feature mitigates concerns about reverse causality and the influence of initial levels...

... proponents of a more robust UN role in the Chapter XI territories that advanced a variety of proposals to effect more uniform treatment of the dependent territories, which eroded administering state authority. It mentions the UN role in the nontrust dependent territories that had expanded beyond the confines...

... protests rebellions secessionist movements terrorism states societies international law sovereignty state leaders international security state authority system of states governed population There are roughly 195 states in the world today. It is impossible to give a more precise number, because...

...This chapter defines state authority. To exercise state authority is to govern: to make and enforce rules and regulations, and to provide services. Today’s states are expected to regulate, enforce, tax, protect, and provide, and to do so evenly across the full extent of their territories. When...

.... The chapter illustrates the deleterious effects of subversion on Philippine state authority in the South, thus showing the “ground-level” consequences of foreign interference. Its focus on Malaysia and the Philippines also demonstrates that states that are not territorially contiguous can use subversion...

..., this tension even heightened. state functions rationalist view democratic view republican ideas French Revolution state authority In 1970, two years after the upheavals of May 1968, President Georges Pompidou reminded an audience of public servants at the Conseil d’État: “For more than a thousand years...

... state authority and impedes state consolidation. The chapter then assesses why incomplete state consolidation and its international causes matter. centers consolidation state governance peripheries resistance to state strength service provision function of the state weakness state capacity state...

...This concluding chapter highlights the significance of this book’s theory for scholarship and policy. It addresses the implications that result from the book’s central argument about the underappreciated but sizeable role of foreign subversion and its effects on state authority. Importantly...

.... This book argues that foreign subversion undermines state authority and promotes ungoverned space. Enemy governments empower insurgents to destabilize the state and create ungoverned territory. This kind of foreign subversion is a powerful instrument of modern statecraft. But though subversion is less...