Every state contains territorial sectors whose local relations of force differ internally

Evidence

This relation between international forces and national forces is further complicated by the existence within every State of several structurally diverse territorial sectors, with diverse relations of force at all levels (thus the Vendee 236 was allied with the forces of international reaction, and represented them in the heart of French territorial unity; similarly Lyons in the French Revolution represented a particular knot of relations, etc.). — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 763

Categorization

• XREF: The Vendee example anticipates how subnational regions can act as proxies for international reaction — useful for understanding how diasporic or regional Muslim populations get read as foreign elements. — connects to: Rival spatial strategies serve different relations between property and state power — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1619; Exclusive territorial national jurisdictions are a recent twentieth-century invention — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 191