{"product_id":"statebuilding-governance-and-world-order-in-the-21st-century-9780801442926","title":"StateBuilding  Governance and World Order in the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrancis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFukuyama asserts that the lack of 'organizational tradition' in 'failed or weak' nations such as Afghanistan and Haiti represents the greatest threat to an orderly world. He argues that the United States, and the West in general, after rightly intervening in such states either militarily or economically (most often through the IMF or World Bank), have failed to transfer institutional and public- and private-sector know-how to needy countries.... Since he sees the 'international community' represented by the United Nations as a myth because it lacks a military, the mantle of leadership must be worn by the U.S., at great risk to itself.... Fukuyama's ideas will no doubt be much discussed.\u003c\/p\u003e * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFukuyama is a wonderful synthesizer of grand subjects, an adventurer who doesn't mind summing up the history of development theory in one chapter and the history of organizational theory in the next. He pulls this off with minimal resort to jargon, and he pulls the reader along with him.\u003c\/p\u003e * Washington Post Book World *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFukuyama persuasively argues that the great problems of our day—'from poverty to AIDS to drugs to terrorism'—result not from excesses of the state but from its persistent weakness or utter failure in many countries....' State collapse or weakness had already created major humanitarian and human rights disasters during the 1990s in Somalia, Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor.' Americans once could believe that such disasters would affect us only to the degree that we chose to help out by sending cash or peacekeepers. But 9\/11, of course, showed that even a rich and powerful country remains vulnerable to catastrophes brewed in distant, troubled lands.\u003c\/p\u003e * Baltimore Sun *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a very useful, intelligent, and short book by Francis Fukuyama, a leading political thinker. It examines a central issue in the age of terrorism: the perils (and sometimes necessities) of 'state-building' in weakened failed states. One hopes it will become a must-read for State Department policymakers.\u003c\/p\u003e * National Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. The Missing Dimensions of Stateness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Contested Role of the State\u003cbr\u003e Scope versus Strength\u003cbr\u003e Scope, Strength, and Economic Development\u003cbr\u003e The New Conventional Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e The Supply of Institutions\u003cbr\u003e The Demand for Institutions\u003cbr\u003e Making Things Worse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Weak States and the Black Hole of Public Administration\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eInstitutional Economics and the Theory of Organizations\u003cbr\u003e The Ambiguity of Goals\u003cbr\u003e Principals, Agents, and Incentives\u003cbr\u003e Decentralization and Discretion\u003cbr\u003e Losing, and Reinventing, the Wheel\u003cbr\u003e Capacity-Building under Conditions of Organizational Ambiguity: Policy Implications\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Weak States and International Legitimacy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe New Empire\u003cbr\u003e The Erosion of Sovereignty\u003cbr\u003e Nation-Building\u003cbr\u003e Democratic Legitimacy at an International Level\u003cbr\u003e Beyond the Nation-State\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Smaller but Stronger\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49944467374423,"sku":"9780801442926","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801442926.jpg?v=1738809895","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/statebuilding-governance-and-world-order-in-the-21st-century-9780801442926","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}