Central government control remains weak outside the capital, Tripoli.
UN security in Galkayo, which is outside of effective central government control, is normally extremely tight.
Second, the Afghan government must rethink its approach to extending central government control throughout the country.
Mr. Abadi has demanded that all borders return to full Iraqi central government control by Friday.
Oversight of police agencies, hospitals and other services has reverted to central government control.
Central government control has whittled away as Isis has seized ground and public confidence in the political class has tanked.
Its economic prescriptions challenged too many vested interests and raised too many fears of a loss of central government control.
In Georgia, two separatist regions broke away from central government control following a brief war with Russia in 2008.
Meanwhile, Iraq's autonomous northern province of Kurdistan has signed dozens of oil contracts with foreign companies, outside central government control.
The conditions for revolution are ripe: China is relaxing central government control over its vast export machine, and the Internet is linking that machine to buyers worldwide.
On the other hand, more central government control of the economy is unlikely to be the right idea for the information economy.
