The Network State is a self-contradiction. Pick one.

I can envision a Network Government, which does the few positive things governments do (long term infrastructure planning, funding pure research, coordinating public services). The Rojova Revolution is a case study in this.

But the very things that make it meaningful to use 'network' in the phrase exclude it from being a state. At least as an anarchist or IR realist would use the term.

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