Nation building, state building and economic development case studies and comparisons

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nation building in India under British rule / Dietmar Rothermund -- France in Algeria : the heritage of violence / Kay Adamson -- The Philippines : the contested state / Amy Blitz -- Japanese puppet-state building in Manchukuo / S.C.M. Paine -- State and nation building in the Soviet Union under Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin / Martin McCauley -- Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and the creation of the Turkish republic / Alexander Lyon Macfie -- Mao Zedong : utopian visions and practical realities / Warren Sun -- Nasser's Egypt : a quest for national power and prosperity / Kirk J. Beattie -- Underdevelopment in Haiti / Philippe R. Girard -- The incomplete state : the Dominican Republic, 1844-1961 / Frank Moya Pons -- Jordan : among three nationalisms / Philip Robins -- Nation-state building in Israel / Gregory Mahler -- State building and economic failure in North Korea / Charles K. Armstrong -- From anticommunist industrialization to civic democracy in South Korea / Kim Hyung-A -- Deconstruction in the Republic of the Congo / Mbow Amphas-Mampoua -- The three pillars of power in Gabon : ethnicity, family, and France / James F. Barnes -- The incomplete state and the alternate state in Papua New Guinea / Hank Nelson -- National identity and exclusion in Indonesia / Robert Cribb.