Book of Donmon Teith

The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that pub

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war.

Independence and Nation-Building in Latin America: Race and Identity in the Crucible of War reconceptualizes the history of the break-up of colonial empires in

Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington

This book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success.