High state capacity develops from a past where you had ethnic strife for war. And in part, you develop the high state capacity to keep some groups down or enforce some bargains. But i think like the thing that strong states have, and i think political scientists would talk about state systems being, is that you have lots of competing states close to one another. So maybe when you see high state capacity in africa, you should also start getting nervous a bit intrinsically, and indeed, anywhere. Because it's a sign it was needed. It doesn't come from nowhere. Just like you needed a fragment in europe to develop a lot of advances an capitalism. That too had a high cost

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