State-building : governance and world order in the 21st century / Francis Fukuyama.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fukuyama, Francis.

Series:

Messenger Lectures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nation-state.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (154 pages) : illustrations

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

The missing dimensions of stateness

Weak states and the black hole of public administration

Weak states and international legitimacy

Smaller but stronger.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 123-132) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801455353

0801455359

9780801455360

0801455367

OCLC:

891395125