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This paper focuses on the steps certain governments have taken to close the political space available to their civil societies, which have putatively been coopted by “subversive” foreign supporters. After examining America's record as one of these backers, the text’s author looks at 1) what the closed spaces will mean for US foreign policy, as illustrated by the cases of Egypt and Uzbekistan, and 2) how the lost space problem directly links to the broader issue of state fragility.