From nation-building to state-building / edited by Mark T. Berger.

"First published in 2008. Transferred to Digital Printing 2009"--T.p. verso of paperback edition.

Originally published: as special issue of Third world quarterly.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From nation-building to state-building : the geopolitics of development, the nation-state system and the changing global order / Mark T Berger -- Redirecting the revolution? : The USA and the failure of nation-building in South Vietnam / Michael E Latham -- Congo : from state collapse to 'absolutism', to state failure / William Reno -- Nation-building in the land of eternal counter-insurgency : Guatemala and the contradictions of the Alliance for Progress / Stephen M Streeter -- From national development to 'Growth with Equity' : nation-building in Chile, 1950-2000 / Marcus Taylor -- The national or the social? : problems of nation-building in post-World War II Philippines / Kathleen Weekley -- El Salvador : state-building before and after democratisation, 1980-95 / William Deane Stanley -- Haiti : the saturnalia of emancipation and the vicissitudes of predatory rule / Robert Fatton, Jr -- East Timor's double life : smells like Westphalian spirit / Simon Philpott -- Papua New Guinea at thirty : late decolonisation and the political economy of nation-building / Charles Hawksley -- Peace building and state-building in Afghanistan : constructing sovereignty for whose security? / Barnett R Rubin -- Iraq : the contradictions of exogenous state-building in historical perspective / Toby Dodge -- Beyond state-building : global governance and the crisis of the nation-state system in the 21st century / Mark T Berger and Heloise Weber.