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State-Building : Governance and World Order in the 21st Century / Francis Fukuyama.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Messenger LecturesPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) : 10 line drawings, 1 tableContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780801455360
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 320.1 22
LOC classification:
  • JA66 .F85 2004eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness -- Introduction -- The Contested Role of the State -- Scope versus Strength -- Scope, Strength, and Economic Development -- The New Conventional Wisdom -- The Supply of Institutions -- The Demand for Institutions -- Making Things Worse -- 2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration -- Introduction -- Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations -- The Ambiguity of Goals -- Principals, Agents, and Incentives -- Decentralization and Discretion -- Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel -- Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications -- 3. Weak States and International Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The New Empire -- The Erosion of Sovereignty -- Nation-Building -- Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level -- Beyond the Nation-State -- 4. Smaller but Stronger -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know—and more often don't know—about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that will leave something of permanent benefit to the citizens of the countries concerned. These are important lessons, especially as the United States wrestles with its responsibilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak states for international order, and the grounds on which the international community may legitimately intervene to prop them up.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness -- Introduction -- The Contested Role of the State -- Scope versus Strength -- Scope, Strength, and Economic Development -- The New Conventional Wisdom -- The Supply of Institutions -- The Demand for Institutions -- Making Things Worse -- 2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration -- Introduction -- Institutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations -- The Ambiguity of Goals -- Principals, Agents, and Incentives -- Decentralization and Discretion -- Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel -- Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications -- 3. Weak States and International Legitimacy -- Introduction -- The New Empire -- The Erosion of Sovereignty -- Nation-Building -- Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level -- Beyond the Nation-State -- 4. Smaller but Stronger -- Bibliography -- Index

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Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism. The topic of his latest book is, therefore, surprising: the building of new nation-states.The end of history was never an automatic procedure, Fukuyama argues, and the well-governed polity was always its necessary precondition. "Weak or failed states are the source of many of the world's most serious problems," he believes. He traces what we know—and more often don't know—about how to transfer functioning public institutions to developing countries in ways that will leave something of permanent benefit to the citizens of the countries concerned. These are important lessons, especially as the United States wrestles with its responsibilities in Afghanistan, Iraq, and beyond.Fukuyama begins State-Building with an account of the broad importance of "stateness." He rejects the notion that there can be a science of public administration, and discusses the causes of contemporary state weakness. He ends the book with a discussion of the consequences of weak states for international order, and the grounds on which the international community may legitimately intervene to prop them up.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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