Economic concerns continued to dominate the national discourse, and sharp fall in global commodity prices in 1986 stymied hopes for lasting financial stability.
In other words, the client-group formation path of state-building had a strong self-limiting character, wherein further state-building was stymied by this client group.
War, in this view, was considered a limiting if not wholly destructive force that stymied civilian architecture in favor of retrogressive military structures.
