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State Building: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century (Hardcover)

by Francis Fukuyama (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Profile Books Ltd (1 Jul 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1861977816
  • ISBN-13: 978-1861977816
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 583,635 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Michael Gove, The Times

"Prophets rarely have the chance to see politicians put their words into action. But Francis Fukuyama has..."


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The problem of weak states and the need for state-building has existed for many years, but it has been urgent since September 11 and Afghanistan and Iraq. The formation of proper public institutions, such as an honest police force, uncorrupted courts, functioning schools and medical services and a strong civil service, is fraught with difficulties. We know how to help with resources, people and technology across borders, but state building requires methods that are not easily transported. The ability to create healthy states from nothing has suddenly risen to the top of the world agenda. State building has become a crucial matter of global security. In this hugely important book, Francis Fukuyama explains the concept of state-building and discusses the problems and causes of state weakness and its national and international effects.
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1.0 out of 5 stars pretty useless, 16 Jan 2006
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This review is from: State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
a 200-page book that could have been cut down to 5. Indeed, most of the book has nothing to do with state building, including the long section on whether American foreign policy is better then EU's one - certainly an issue of which Fukuyama, even if I can't share his ideas, has a better understanding than development studies.
The author says that state buldign is important, which is not such a surprising piece of news in 2004. He spends a lot of words on why it is so and what are the consequences of not doing that, but, hello, we know that as well. The problem is HOW and Fukuyama has not an answer and proposes no new ideas.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Some points worth making, 28 Mar 2008
This review is from: State Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century: Governance and World Order in the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
This book make some good points, and most valuable of all (in my opinion) is the way that Fukuyama revisits and critically assesses some assumptions about statehood, development, institutions &c which are so widely believed that we barely realise they're there.

However, there are parts of the book that get too bogged down in particular subjects, such as organisational theory. I'd suggest cutting half of that bit out, but then the book would be even slimmer (I read it in a single sitting, on a flight from Jo'burg to London).

This book does not provide easy answers to development and state-building, because there *are* no easy answers, but it certainly helps us ask better questions.
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