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The vision, at the end of World War II, of a world of sovereign nation-states, legitimate powers of law and order with a monopoly on the use of force within recognized boundaries, was a long shot. Some regions proved resistant to the formation of functional states, and it happens that many of those incompletely formed or failed states are in the Muslim world. Generally, the challenge came from the imbalance between resources, population, and the quality of institutions. Read more...

I really enjoyed this book. It is Butcher's first, and in some places that shows, but overall it was a very good read. The plot kept me interested, and I did not figure out the whodunit until the end.