A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today\'s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design.
They were too nomadic and communal to incorporate in the state, yet their labor was too valuable to displace.
From the Afghan Frontier with British India to the pampas of Argentina to the deserts of Arizona, nineteenth-century empires drew borders with an eye toward placing indigenous people just on the edge of the interior.
A provocative case that "failed states" along the periphery of today\'s international system are the intended result of nineteenth-century colonial design