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At 08:42 AM 4/25/2001 -0700, Ray Dillinger wrote:
>Actually, that does seem likely. The former Soviet Union is a huge
>power vacuum, and something is going to move into it or grow there.
Somehow a state that owns all the media, almost all the land, and
interferes extensively in the day to day activities of the businesses that
employ most people does not qualify as a power vacuum.
The russian state is weak in that its reach exceeds its grasp, weak in that
to exercise that much control requires more coercion and violence that the
state is willing or able to engage in. It is not weak in absolute terms.
The lack of property rights in Russia is not a result of a weak state,
rather it is a result of the widespread lack of acceptance and support for
property rights.
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