State-Building
Subtitle: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780801442926
Subjects: Political structure & processes; 21st century; Politics / Current Events; National state; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; Middle East; International Relations - General; Middle East - General; Petroleum; State, The; History & Theory - General
First sentence: The state is an ancient human institution dating back some 10,000 years to the first agricultural societies that sprang up in Mesopotamia.