Last week on The Sunday Stew, we unveiled the Decoupling Sovereignty Index (DSI), a quantitative metric I developed as an extension of the Trinity of State Decay. It is meant …
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The mirage, the shadow and the resurrection: Here comes the decoupling sovereignty index
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 10 minutes readThere is a question that every serious student of state decay eventually confronts, and that existing instruments only partially answer: not whether a state is fragile, but how far the …
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‘To keep it coming’: Reflections on framework building, idea formation and scholarly reception
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 8 minutes readThere is a specific kind of validation that academia confers and another that the world confers. The academy signals acceptance through citation, peer review, and the slow machinery of scholarly …
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The insecurity triad: Azikiwe, Awolowo, and Chinweizu — Nigeria’s elite class of framework builders
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 9 minutes readLast Sunday, I indicated that this week’s edition of The Sunday Stew would pay tribute to the late political economist and public intellectual, Claude Ake. That tribute remains, but its …
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From Abuja to the world: The insecurity triad and rise of the independent African scholar
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 8 minutes readThere are moments when an idea moves beyond commentary and begins entering systems. The week that just ended was one of those moments. Within the span of days, The Insecurity …
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The trinity of state decay (I): The mirage and the shadow
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 8 minutes readA nation does not declare its own decline. It performs normalcy — until the performance can no longer hold. What follows is not an announcement, but a pattern — visible …
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The insecurity triad: Money, land, and mind — a definitive articulation
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 8 minutes readA nation does not collapse all at once. It erodes — layer by layer, system by system — until what once appeared unshakable begins to give way under the weight …
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The insecurity triad (III): Terrorism — The ideological ghost and the war for Nigeria’s soul
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 8 minutes readThere is a kind of fear that does not announce itself with gunfire. It does not arrive on motorcycles or through midnight phone calls demanding ransom. It settles quietly, reshaping …
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The insecurity triad (II): Banditry — the rural siege and the weaponisation of the harvest
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 9 minutes readThere is a different kind of silence in the countryside. It is not the anxious quiet of a ringing phone, but the heavy stillness of abandoned farmlands. Crops rot where …
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Amuchie’s ‘insecurity triad’ Tackles Nigeria’s crises of kidnapping, banditry, terrorism
by Max Amuchieby Max Amuchie 2 minutes readRenowned syndicated columnist and CEO of Sundiata Post, Dr Max Amuchie, has launched a powerful new three-part series titled “The Insecurity Triad” in the latest edition of his widely read …