The Editors: Raymond Polin has been Professor of Political Science and Theory at St. John's University for three decades. He received his Ph.D. in History and Government from New York University, GSAS, New York. A contributor to numerous articles, reviews, and media, he is the author of Marxian Foundations of Communism, Modern Government and Constitutionalism, and Plato and Aristotle on Constitutionalism. Constance Polin is a researcher and co-author of academic articles published in journals and general media.
Many de facto and de jura governments in the international system are operated by various elites who, having seized the state apparatus, plunder resources; corrupt national legitimacy and viability; and facilitate individual/clique profiteering, group supremacy, ethnic and/or theocratic revenge, ruthless control, and exploitation of the population. Contrast this with the perhaps imperfect nation-building and institutional development brilliantly examined here. (Jesse Goldstaub, Retired International Operations Advisor)
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