Accessibility links
What Is a State? The process of nation building in Iraq depends on certain ideas about how a society should be run and how a country should be governed. What makes for a successful state?

Guests:

Francis Fukuyama
*Professor of international political economy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
*Author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century

What Is a State?

Heard on Talk of the Nation

What Is a State?

Listen
  • Download
  • <iframe src="https://www.npr.org/player/embed/1969328/1969329" width="100%" height="290" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" title="NPR embedded audio player">

The process of nation building in Iraq depends on certain ideas about how a society should be run and how a country should be governed. What makes for a successful state?

Guests:

Francis Fukuyama
*Professor of international political economy at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University
*Author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century