Failed States

All countries are not equal. There are inequalitites in natural resources, territory, population and wealth. Sometimes the government of a country becomes so weak and ineffective that it is unable to provide a stable life for its citizens.

In some cases, the community is still cohesive. The country should be assisted so that it can rejoin the international community. In other cases, the community is really a collection of people with divergent interests and histories. In this situation, the country should be dissolved into smaller units. This may be even result in the creation of city-states. The world once held many city-states. It might make more sense for them to return. In other places, smaller regional groupings might be less unwieldy than the sprawling countries with borders created long ago by colonial powers.