Modern politics is grounded in a system of order established by sovereign statessovereign state, which formulate rules and policies aimed at preventing warwar and promoting stabilitystability and prosperity. However, beyond formal institutionsinstitutions, social and cultural arrangements constitute the informal infrastructureinfrastructure that underpins political orderpolitical order. As such, coherence between formal political structures and informal sources of power is essential for the developmentdevelopment of a statestate system that is more conducive to stabilitystability than to conflictconflict