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In the late twentieth century, makers of maps and atlases faced the challenge of keeping up with numerous changes in countries’ names and borders. One thing remained a constant, however: find a piece of inhabited territory, and it was certain to belong to some country or other—a country with a government, a flag, an army, and all of the other trappings of the modern nation state. For a country to lack a central government, as, for example, Somalia did during most of the 1990s, was a noteworthy and exceptional fact.
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Chanda, A., Putterman, L. (2005). State Effectiveness, Economic Growth, and the Age of States. In: Lange, M., Rueschemeyer, D. (eds) States and Development. Political Evolution and Institutional Change. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403982681_4
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