The piracy itself was a product of Somalia's lack of capacity to govern itself and secure its coastal regions.
They can be exclusionary, favour established interests (Rhodes 1997), compromise public accountability, and threaten public values and the capacity of governments to govern (Davidson and Lockwood 2008).
But I believe that the test of our capacity to govern is whether we have the strength to take the right long term decisions for our country.
In a number of these countries, particularly Egypt and Tunisia, he said, "the state has lost a lot of its capacity to govern effectively.
For if we follow this line of argument, in realistic types of democratic models it is the actual functioning of the mechanisms and procedures enabling a certain degree of control of the decision-makers by citizens and a certain decisional capacity of those governing that counts.
"It's not a kind of speech that's a valuable predictor of one's capacity to govern," she said.
"His capacity to govern the Archdiocese of Boston had been irreversibly undermined," said that official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
President Hu Jintao hasn't bothered to conceal the fact that the crisis has become a matter of political survival — "a test of our Party's capacity to govern," as he put it in the official People's Daily newspaper.
"Countries torn apart by conflict pay a huge toll in their capacity to govern," says Huguette Labelle, chairman of Transparency International.
We are always free in the sense that we always have the capacity to govern ourselves rationally instead of letting our desires set our ends for us.
The trailer (above) is overheated and polemical, mashing up risks from climate change driven by accumulating greenhouse gases with the deep and inherent climate and coastal vulnerability from New Orleans to sub-Saharan Africa (vulnerability that is mainly created by poverty, a lack of governing capacity, poor planning and/or population growth, not by changing environmental risks).
