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"Nation Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century" Author: Francis Fukuyama Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
"Nation Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century" Author: Francis Fukuyama Series: Ideal Country Translation Series
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Poverty, drugs, AIDS, terrorism - today's world faces many difficult and complex problems, which not only trouble the people living in the places where the problems originate, but also threaten the security of human civilization as a whole. There are many different opinions among researchers on the source of these problems. Francis Fukuyama, who once proposed the "end of history", believes that the reasons for these problems are the same: the weakness or failure of the state. The solution to them is state building.
This book discusses the proposition of state building at the two levels of state governance and world order. The author believes that weak or failed states have become the root cause of many serious problems in the world today. To overcome these problems, the capabilities within the state's functions should be strengthened while streamlining the scope of the state's functions. Starting with the analysis of the concept of the state, the author combines organizational theory with contemporary political reality, proposes ways to build a strong state system in developing countries, and the means of state building that the international community should pay attention to when intervening in other countries. Finally, he points out that whether it is the state building of a nation-state or the aid and intervention of the international community, there is a common goal: to build a small but strong country.
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Editor's Recommendations
★ The next work, "The Origins of Political Order", uses the country as a mirror to explore the rise and fall of mankind in the new century
With the advent of the 21st century, the human world has entered a new stage. It is at this historical node that Fukuyama focused on the significance of nation-building and subsequently wrote two broad-minded historical works on nation-building: The Origins of Political Order and Political Order and Political Decay.
★ Combining organizational theory and public administration theory to analyze the pathology of the country's weak genes and institutional drawbacks
From the perspective of comparative politics, the book compares the governance performance of different countries in important areas in reality, presents the level of state function of various countries with the author's usual clarity, and based on organizational theory, clearly and easily analyzes the causes of institutional ills and the difficulties in building an efficient organizational system.
★ Closely following world current affairs and modern history, with a keen concern for reality and a Fukuyama-style historical perspective
Starting from a series of practical problems facing human society, such as poverty, drugs, AIDS, and terrorism, the book expounds on the theory of state construction around the methods to solve these problems, while also reviewing relevant classic historical cases since World War II, taking into account both urgent practical needs and in-depth historical review.
★ Peking University professor Li Qiang wrote a preface to recommend a comprehensive review of Fukuyama's research ideas on state theory over the past decade
Professor Li Qiang not only carefully interpreted the main points of the book, but also summarized the author's theory of state construction further elaborated in subsequent works such as "The Origins of Political Order", helping readers to have a deep and comprehensive understanding of "a world-wide history of state construction" outlined by the author with a broad and grand comparative political perspective.
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Celebrity Recommendation
Francis Fukuyama is a leading analyst of contemporary affairs, making insightful and outstanding contributions to our understanding of the social and political problems of today's complex world.
—Samuel Huntington
Fukuyama convincingly argues that the world's major problems today - from poverty to AIDS, from drugs to terrorism - are not the result of excessive state rule, but rather the result of the long-standing weakness or outright failure of many states. State collapse or weakness has caused major humanitarian and human rights disasters in Somalia, Haiti, Cambodia, Bosnia, Kosovo, and East Timor in the 1990s. Americans once believed that they could deal with these disasters by simply giving money or sending peacekeeping troops, but the events of September 11 proved that even a rich and powerful country is still not immune to the disasters bred in these distant and chaotic lands.
--The Baltimore Sun
Fukuyama is a brilliant writer who handles big themes, taking risks by summarizing the history of development theory in one chapter and the history of organizational theory in another, and he does so without resorting to technical jargon to keep the reader on track.
—The Washington Post
This useful and wise little book by Francis Fukuyama, a leading voice in political thought, explores a central question in the age of terrorism: the dangers (and sometimes the necessity) of “nation-building” for fragile, failing states. Hopefully, it will become required reading for State Department policymakers.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Francis Fukuyama is a Japanese-American scholar with a PhD in political science from Harvard University. He is currently the Oliver Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He previously taught at the Niedz School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He was formerly the Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Bureau of the U.S. State Department and a researcher at the RAND Corporation. He is the author of The End of History and the Last Man, Trust, and The Origins of Political Order. He currently lives in California.
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About the Translator
Guo Hua holds a Master's degree in Education from Oxford University and a PhD in Sociology from the Institute of Education, University of London. He currently lives in the UK. He has published a series of columns on British culture and education in domestic and foreign media, and has translated Fukuyama's work Trust: Social Virtues and the Creation of Economic Prosperity.
