State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

Francis Fukuyama famously predicted "the end of history" with the ascendancy of liberal democracy and global capitalism....
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State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Fukuyama, Francis

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

¥6,145

State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

¥6,145
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.



Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 04/07/2004
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780801442926
Audience: Young Adult


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2005 pg. 1465
Publishers Weekly 04/05/2004 pg. 51

About the Author

Francis Fukuyama is a senior fellow and the Mosbacher director of the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. He is the author of Political Order and Political Decay, State-Building, The End of History and the Last Man, The Origins of Political Order, America at the Crossroads, and Falling Behind.


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