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Seeing like an NGO: On OPSEC and State Legibility

A. Montagnard

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Aug 25, 2025
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James C. Scott’s Seeing Like A State, an anarchist classic, introduces a useful dialectic between legible and complex systems to explain why “high modernist” “schemes to improve the human condition” …

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