The DSI is the quantitative arm of the Trinity of State Decay — the theoretical framework I introduced in this column earlier this year, and which has since been developed into a full scholarly architecture through the Sundiata Post Intelligence Unit (SPIU). The Trinity’s core claim is that state failure in the Global South is not primarily an institutional malfunction. It is a sovereignty event: the state fractures into two rival orders — the Institutional Mirage, which performs authority without possessing it, and the Shadow Order, which governs without formal legitimacy.
The mirage, the shadow and the resurrection: Here comes the Decoupling Sovereignty Index, By Max Amuchie
