Conditions for State-Building from the American Perspective

Abstract

The change in the concept of state building was associated with the shifting of contexts, which in turn imposed critical revision. Hence the theoretical and methodological development of studying this phenomenon, which made the specialists of geographers and comparative politics in a continuous follow-up of the developments taking place, especially the challenges posed by globalization as a decisive historical moment. Hence, an urgent need arose to reconsider the foundations and characteristics of state building, and the levels of its analysis. On the other hand, this remained only a theoretical ambition. Supporters of contemporary political theory put the procedural approach in studying this phenomenon, with the aim of answering the questions of the present and rebuilding the model state according to the criterion of responding to the needs of the individual and society.