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Failed states
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States that lack the basic institutions and capacities of government – taxing, policing, upholding the rule of law, protecting property, providing public roads and services, and maintaining control over territory.
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Warlords
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Private authority figures who control their own local armies or militias.Private authority figures who control their own local armies or militias.
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Weak states
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States with functioning central governments but only weak control over their territory and borders.
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Pirates
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Non-state gangs who commit robbery or criminal violence on the high seas.
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Privatization of war
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The idea that, as technology advances, private groups have greater capacities to wage violence usually reserved for states.
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