Statebuilding
<...The weaknesses of the world system are fracturing around the flawed bit of state building begun in 1948.
A great deal of the grief around the world in this century was caused by outside powers, colonial or otherwise, dividing countries up and creating new borders according to some bright idea of their own, disregarding any local factors. Africa is a good example of this. So is the Mideast.
It occurred to me, that with all the screaming about occupied territories, it does seem odd that no one at all minds Syria occupying Lebanon.