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South Africa has failed before. So it should not fail again!
In her contribution in an article on “Failed State” to SAGE Publications’ Encyclopedia of Governance (2007), Naazneen H. Barma, an assistant Professor of National Security Affairs, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, describes a “Failed state”, as a state that is unable to perform the two fundamental functions of the sovereign nation-state in the modern world system: it cannot project authority over its territory and peoples, and it cannot protect its national boundaries.”
Barma, whose research and teaching focuses on the political economy of development and natural resource governance amongst other
