What we have been witnessing over the last few decades is that the role of the state as a governing institution is declining steadily the world over. State is confronting challenges from within and without, and in a large number of sectors it appears to befalling in facilitating governance. Some of the problems are of such a complex nature that they seem to be beyond the capacity and purview of the modern state. In the contemporary world non-governmental organisations and social movements are posing a serious challenge to the statecentric pillars of the world system. Such a predicament of international anarchy provides a potential space to re-search the different dimensions of anarchy, state and governance both at domestic and international levels.
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