State-Building by Francis Fukuyama

State-Building by Francis FukuyamaFrancis 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

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