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John Robb:

"A primary loyalty is a connection to a non-state group that is greater than loyalty to a state. These loyalties include those to clan, religion, tribe, neighborhood gang, etc. These loyalties are reciprocated through the delivery of political goods by the group that the state cannot or will not deliver." (http://globalguerrillas.typepad.com/globalguerrillas/2005/01/primary_loyalti.html)