Seth Kaplan argues that, though well-intentioned, current development efforts are ineffective, focused on ‘technocratic solutions’ rather than on the social and cultural processes that must drive state building for it to be successful.
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 in Maplewood, New Jersey.