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Title: State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama ISBN: 0-8014-4292-3 Publisher: Cornell University Press Pub. Date: May, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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Summary: The Next Global Challenge: Strengthening States
Comment: For many Americans, including almost all libertarians, state power is something to be diminished. While there is usually some acknowledgement that the state is necessary for the national defense and for administering the rule of law, many Americans do not willingly concede that the regulation of certain aspects of the economy -- to give one example -- is a legitimate use of state power. In the early 1990s, this American ideology naturally became a part of the ideology of the international institutions in which the U.S. played a major role. Developing countries which came to these international institutions for help were usually told, and sometimes even required, to reduce the scope and power of their states.
In this short volume, Fukuyama shows how inappropriate - and even disastrous -- this American ideology is when applied indiscriminately in developing countries around the world. Claiming it is no longer supported by most academic empirical research, he provides a rough and tentative alternative to the idea of the shrinking state by demonstrating where states must be strong and where it is okay for them to scale down. Finally, he shows how such various global problems such as fighting terrorism and AIDS, the nonproliferation of WMD, and encouraging the spread of democracy, depend upon strong, not weak states, and that the U.S. and Europe must both come to terms (in their own ways) with this new international approach.
Fukuyama claims that what is needed is a paradigm shift. For much of the last half-century, the trend has been to weaken the state. Now, the evidence suggests that a new approach is needed, one that goes beyond simply shrinking or enlarging the state, and begins to deal with making the state more effective based on local conditions. While some basic outcomes (a democratic, capitalist state, for example) are to be expected, the way each nation gets there will be different.
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Title: Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington ISBN: 0684870533 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: May, 2004 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Colossus: The Price of America's Empire by Niall Ferguson ISBN: 1594200130 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 22 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership by Zbigniew Brzezinski ISBN: 0465008003 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 02 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Surprise, Security, and the American Experience by John Lewis Gaddis ISBN: 0674011740 Publisher: Harvard University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics by Joseph S. Nye ISBN: 1586482254 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: 16 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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