“narrow corridor” that kept them in this precarious balance. On either side of this corridor lie traps. On the one hand, the power of the state breaks that of wider society and completely dominates it, creating despotic Leviathans like China. On the other, the state falls apart, producing absent Leviathans, zombies, where the state has no real control over society, as in places like Somalia or Lebanon. Both have terrible consequences for their populations.
