... of territory, temporal location, or socioeconomic circumstances with which the state is associated. The chapter maintains the significance of a general definition that is applicable to any form of sovereign human political authority, in order not to prejudice a theory of state building toward any particular...

...This introductory chapter explains that the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state building but also nation building, which required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Amdo Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community...

... Aparna raison d’état thinking governance strategies United States exceptionalism exceptionality state institutions state policies governmental reform state building Presentism is not the only habit of thought that compromises our ability to think clearly about strategies for governing...

... by the state-building projects of the late Qing and early Republican governments. Chinese maternalism emerged during a period of profound international demographic anxiety, especially after intensified international competition made governments focus on their populations in ways they had not previously done...

... that the Communist Party's goal in 1950s Amdo was not just state-building, but also nation-building. Such an objective required the construction of narratives and policies capable of convincing Tibetans of their membership in a wider political community. As the book shows, however, early efforts to gradually...

...This chapter provides a historical overview of the systemic fiscal crisis that triggered the collapse of communism and the emergence of postcommunist states. It examines postcommunist state building amid the fiscal crisis and how the communist state effectively restructured its revenue base to gain...

...This chapter examines how French and Spanish colonial intervention forged a protonational territorial space in Morocco. It first considers the physical and human geography of state building in Morocco, with particular emphasis on precolonial and colonial conceptions of the state's territorial reach...

... by encouraging political and societal influence on decision making. This approach is different from the successful international approach to state building, whereby international organizations insulated the effective bureaucracies from societal and political clientelism. Afghanistan Bosnia East Timor Sierra...

... Germán Jairo Rendón development international development Afghanistan bottom up development frontier effect frontier state formations Hobbes Thomas Iraq technocratic planners top down development war of position paramilitary statecraft state building state presence state projects rural...

... useful in making the world more peaceful and prosperous. The chapter argues that this dramatically overstates the impact that development or state-building interventions have because they constitute a small part of the means by which power and resources move between north and south. civil wars debt...

... Corporation Okura zaibatsu totalism zentaishugi Dōwa Motors Manchurian Light Metals Tokyo Imperial University Ministry of International Trade and Industry MITI Manchuria industrial development state-building Japan Japanese bureaucrats technocrats With the arrival of elite Japanese bureaucrats...

...This chapter analyzes the “sequencing” theory of state building, arguing that there is no master sequence applicable to all failed states because different states fail in different ways. Sequencing is impractical for policymaking due to the complexity of interagency multinational operations...

...This chapter establishes a typology of state-building strategies based on the degree of control or influence exercised by the international community, and the areas of statehood in which it exercises such control. It focuses on strategy as the necessary condition for success, although tactical...

...This chapter discusses different strategies of state building in each aspect of statehood, while drawing on the historical record to illustrate the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches. For each of the five dimensions of statehood, the chapter describes strategies of state building...

...This chapter examines five cases of state building: West Germany (1945–55), Nicaragua (1989–92), Liberia (1993–97), Sierra Leone (1999–2006), and Afghanistan (2001–10). These five cases indicate a diversity of geographic regions, time periods (post-World War II, post-Cold War, and post-9/11...

...Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo...

... the flow of support to insurgents, most often by targeting civilians with brute force to control their behavior, as well as targeting the insurgency directly. The compellence theory considers counterinsurgency as primarily a domestic political process of violent state-building. institutions of government...

..., these cases provide strong evidence of the explanatory power of the compellence theory, with its emphasis on coalition building among rival elites and a military campaign targeting civilians as well as insurgents. The chapter then looks at the implications of this analysis on peacekeeping and state-building...

...This introductory chapter explains how understanding armed state building is important for both scholarship and policymaking. Armed state building is an attempt to spread norms about what states are, what they should be, and how states govern—it is the attempt to urge weak states to abide...

...This concluding chapter summarizes conclusions, sketches the scope conditions under which these conclusions hold, explores alternative hypotheses, offers policy recommendations, looks at the most recent state-building operations, and engages briefly with the discussion about the normative merits...