State Building is much in the news these days. From Iraq and Afghanistan to Somalia and the Congo, the United States and the rest of the international community seek to stabilize fragile regimes and foster economic growth. Yet, fractured societies and weak governments combine to frustrate these efforts.
Why is state building so difficult? Is there anything in our approach that might be improved?
Seth Kaplan, author of Fixing Fragile States: A New Paradigm for Development (Praeger Security International, 2008) will discuss “The Challenges of State Building” on March 15th at 1100 AM at the Ethical Culture Society of Essex County in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Mr. Kaplan is a business consultant to companies in developing countries as well as a foreign policy analyst. His articles on countries as varied as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Bolivia, and China have appeared in a wide variety of journals and newspapers, including the Washington Quarterly, Orbis, the Journal of Democracy, Policy Review, the New York Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, the Jerusalem Post, and China Business Review. See http://sethkaplan.org/
PLACE: The Ethical Culture Society of Essex County -- 516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, New Jersey 07040 Phone 973-763-1905
