GOVERNMENT CAPACITY BUILDING
October 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE CONCEPT of nation building is not new. Powerful governments have for centuries sought to create pliant political administrations which would do their bidding, without being directly under their control. It is, after all, in noone's interest for a territory to descent into chaos. One of the oldest examples an international group creating a government system is in the Levant, where Christian knights created Crusader Kingdoms so save the Holy Land from Moslems they considered as infidels. Nation building continued in the 19th century of gunboat ...
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