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Tag: Society

Americans hate each other. But we aren’t headed for civil war.

Research finds that a weak state and poverty predict such conflicts.

Snippet worth repeating: “Grievances and societal cleavages exist everywhere, waiting to be exploited. What distinguishes the countries that descend into civil war from those that do not is the lack of state capacity to put down rebellion — for reasons rooted in politics, economics or geography.”

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