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January 18, 2010

Earthquake Exposes Haiti's Real Problems

Tony Kinsella, Irish Times

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One thing Haiti, Somalia, Afghanistan and Zaire have in common is the lack of an organised state, even pre-disaster

THE DANTEAN images from Port-au-Prince offer wrenching tableaux of what can happen when a natural catastrophe ravages a failing state with inadequate systems of governance. Failed states are a new challenge. During the cold war neither superpower could allow one of its client states, however grotesque or ramshackle, to fail. The former Zaire and Somalia are prime examples.

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