Decoupling Sovereignty Index (6): Recovery Sequencing and the Logic of Sovereign Re-coupling, By Max Amuchie

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Max Amuchie examines how governments can restore effective sovereignty after rebuilding a territory, arguing that infrastructure and formal administration alone are insufficient. Recovery depends on sequencing measures that enable residents to move safely and reconnect communities with state authority.

A government can spend billions rebuilding a territory and still fail to restore its authority. It can construct local government offices, rehabilitate schools, establish health facilities and introduce formal systems of taxation. It can deploy officials, launch livelihood programmes and announce the return of normal administration. Yet if residents cannot travel safely along the roads […] The post Decoupling Sovereignty Index (6): Recovery Sequencing and the Logic of Sovereign Re-coupling, By Max Amuchie appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.