Beyond the devastating and widely discussed humanitarian and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the current global crisis also exposes the dangers inherent in governmental shortcomings to provide for their citizens’ welfare adequately. In other words: the downside is almost universally a failure of state capacity. In its broadest sense, state capacity refers to the ability of a government to control its territory and extract the means for survival from the population.
Link:https://minerva.defense.gov/Owl-In-the-Olive-Tree/Owl_View/Article/2152823/national-security-implications-of-the-covid-19-crisis-the-urgent-need-to-build/