"The story is that his family house was immediately surrounded and secured by the Pakistani police," said Antonio Giustozzi, research fellow in the Crisis States Centre at the London School of Economics.
Eloquently, if vaguely, the prime minister imagined a more flexible network of states centred on the single market, each choosing where to co-operate and where to opt out.
While the non-state centres offer free services, anonymity and confidentiality, they are acutely under-financed and overwhelmed with demand.
Ancient Rome, the state centred on the city of Rome.
Jayant Sinha, the junior finance minister, sees a "very big change for state-centre relations".
Mauryan empire, in ancient India, a state centred at Pataliputra (later Patna) near the junction of the Son and Ganges (Ganga) rivers.
It returned the role of the state centre-stage in the bailout of banks and financial institutions, as corporate welfare (the well-being of corporations at public expense) reached a new zenith.
In 2012 it expanded into Syria, attracting thousands of jihadists from around the world to become the strongest rebel militia and establishing a proto-state centred on the city of Raqqa.
But is scarcely credible to assign all these failings to faceless, evil market forces, when the weakness of our politics lies in the inappropriateness of nation-state centred modes of democracy and governance – its dismal party politics and incompetent national politicians – to the complex macro-regional and globally interconnected world we live in and share today.
that flank the state centre of the house.
The attack occurred 85 km (50 miles) outside the capital of Borno state, centre of the seven-year insurgency, they said.
