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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: David A. LakePublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501704468ISBN 10: 150170446 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 10 June 2016 Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""David A. Lake provides in this important and timely book a strong critique of U.S. efforts to build the legitimacy and capacity of states in the wake of military interventions. In penetrating analyses of efforts to create a strong post-Saddam Hussein state in Iraq and a state arising from anarchy in post-Siad Barre Somalia, Lake carefully explains how the United States as state builder faces a fundamental dilemma: in installing regimes that are loyal to U.S. interests, these governments lose legitimacy in the eyes of their own people. This book makes an important contribution to knowledge on the fundamental dilemmas of externally led statebuilding and it implies a deeply sober caution about the utility of ambitious statebuilding efforts by great powers such as the United States.""-Timothy Sisk, University of Denver, author of Statebuilding ""The Statebuilder's Dilemma has an impressively clear and persuasive argument. Statebuilding is the enterprise to create stable states by intervening actors from outside the polity. Despite the treasure, time, and blood that has been spent in the name of statebuilding, every modern attempt has failed. David A. Lake develops the notion of the 'statebuilder's dilemma' to explain why this has been the case. Lake brings up fundamental aspects of political order in ways that are thought provoking and surely bound to stimulate new avenues of research and teaching. His use of a wide range of examples from nineteenth- and twentieth-century history makes his argument both solid and applicable to further in-depth studies of more cases. I highly recommended this book to scholars of state theory and international relations as well as to military and civilian practitioners who grapple with these complex issues.""-Peter Halden, Swedish Defence University, author of Stability without Statehood: Lessons from Europe's History before the Sovereign State ""In asserting that the failure of international statebuilding is 'overdetermined,' David A. Lake's critical (but also reassuring) study of U.S. policymaking adds a nice twist: the dilemma that the more we want to help the less able we are to do so. That is, unless we have the patience and foresight to put aside desires to fast forward processes that require indigenous forms of ownership, commitment, and relationship-building, led by domestic actors.""-David Chandler, University of Westminster" David A. Lake provides in this important and timely book a strong critique of U.S. efforts to build the legitimacy and capacity of states in the wake of military interventions. In penetrating analyses of efforts to create a strong post-Saddam Hussein state in Iraq and a state arising from anarchy in post-Siad Barre Somalia, Lake carefully explains how the United States as state builder faces a fundamental dilemma: in installing regimes that are loyal to U.S. interests, these governments lose legitimacy in the eyes of their own people. This book makes an important contribution to knowledge on the fundamental dilemmas of externally led statebuilding and it implies a deeply sober caution about the utility of ambitious statebuilding efforts by great powers such as the United States. -Timothy Sisk, University of Denver, author of Statebuilding The Statebuilder's Dilemma has an impressively clear and persuasive argument. Statebuilding is the enterprise to create stable states by intervening actors from outside the polity. Despite the treasure, time, and blood that has been spent in the name of statebuilding, every modern attempt has failed. David A. Lake develops the notion of the 'statebuilder's dilemma' to explain why this has been the case. Lake brings up fundamental aspects of political order in ways that are thought provoking and surely bound to stimulate new avenues of research and teaching. His use of a wide range of examples from nineteenth- and twentieth-century history makes his argument both solid and applicable to further in-depth studies of more cases. I highly recommended this book to scholars of state theory and international relations as well as to military and civilian practitioners who grapple with these complex issues. -Peter Halden, Swedish Defence University, author of Stability without Statehood: Lessons from Europe's History before the Sovereign State Author InformationDavid A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of The Statebuilder's Dilemma: On the Limits of Foreign Intervention, Hierarchy in International Relations, and Power, Protection, and Free Trade: International Sources of U.S. Commercial Strategy, 1887-1939 and the coeditor of Politics in the New Hard Times: The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective and The State and American Foreign Economic Policy, all from Cornell. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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