All of these are elements of the state-building effort.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fadi Elsalameen: Prime Minister Fayyad 'Build, build despite the occupation'] Reference

The limitations of Charlemagne's state-building were evident at his death.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Muslims Made Europe] Reference

Courses are taught on topics such as democracy, economics and state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar Opposition Group Has New Tack: Cooperation] Reference

The State Department, this adviser went on, "is not set up for state-building.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Embedded in Iraq] Reference

On the other hand, internationals need to evaluate their state-building efforts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fron Nahzi: Growing Radicalism in the Balkan Region] Reference

Palestinian state-building also includes institutional and civil society reforms.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Palestinian State Takes Root] Reference

All this argues for adopting a policy of counterterrorism rather than state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Let's Un-Surge in Afghanistan] Reference

Essentially, it was a textbook effort on how not to go about a state-building program.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 13, 2009] Reference

Responsible state-building would require of them a level of accountability they scorn.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Palestinian Moderation Looks Like] Reference

That makes nation state-building in Iraq a bigger challenge for the U.S. on the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2005] Reference

We're talking about physical security before we should be worrying about state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 4, 2004] Reference

From 1881 to 1885, the Egyptian forces confronted the state-building endeavors of the Mahdi.    From Wordnik.com.  [G. Africa, 1795-1917] Reference

"This is a state-building track," he told me in a Palestine Note interview at his Ramallah office.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fadi Elsalameen: Prime Minister Fayyad 'Build, build despite the occupation'] Reference

In southern Africa, the 19th century opened as Africans pursued their own state-building activities.    From Wordnik.com.  [G. Africa, 1795-1917] Reference

"They are testing their capability for state-building in an area that is riven by factions and crime.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Security Mission to Kosovo Faces Local Reluctance] Reference

Even more critical, it is a sure sign that the state-building venture of the Karzai government is flawed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Schneider: Strategic Incoherence and Taliban Resurgence in Afghanistan] Reference

The indispensable American role and the twin pillars of negotiations and state-building remain unchanged.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ziad J. Asali, M.D.: Giving up is not an option] Reference

It is more about finding interventions that encourage long-term economic transformation and state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Todd Moss: What Does Secretary Clinton Really Mean By "Elevating Development"] Reference

The history of U.S. state-building endeavors is not encouraging, and Afghanistan poses particular challenges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Clemons: Realists Warn on Iraq Afghanistan War] Reference

Ukraine has been lacking this incentive for comprehensive democratization and effective state-building so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ukraine's German Chance] Reference

Others have tried to repackage the approach of incrementalism under occupation as grassroots "state-building".    From Wordnik.com.  [Lessons from Camp David] Reference

We are engaged in Afghanistan, truly in nation-building -- or state-building probably is a more appropriate term.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 24, 2009] Reference

We urge your administration to refocus on al Qaeda and avoid an open-ended state-building mission in Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steve Clemons: Realists Warn on Iraq Afghanistan War] Reference

There is lots we can do in the meantime as we're sort the politics and the state-building out to get the thing moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 4, 2007] Reference

Mr. Fayyad's state-building program is creating the institutional framework that is essential to a functioning democracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Palestinian State Takes Root] Reference

•An early neglect by the US and its allies of state-building and sustainable security, in favour of hunting down Al Qaeda.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ashdown: What I told Gordon Brown about Afghanistan] Reference

If they do, the ten southern states of Sudan will become Africa's newest nation, with enormous state-building challenges ahead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jehanne Henry: As Sudan Referendum Nears, Northerners Brace for Backlash] Reference

And as long as it continues to conflate military and state-building objectives, the United States will always appear to be losing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malou Innocent: Defining Victory to Win a War] Reference

More recently, Chomsky expressed a positive sentiment toward Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's state-building project in the West Bank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Omar Baddar: Missing the Nuance: Abunimah's Criticism of Noam Chomsky] Reference

The Zionist project, a doctrine dating to the state-building nationalisms of the late nineteenth century, has long since lost its way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amos Elon (1926–2009)] Reference

Iraqis are rational and strategic and calculate with whom to invest their lives -- their tribes, mosque, militia or the state-building effort here.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Eisele: A Reporter's View of the War in Iraq] Reference

Political pressure from Washington since the end of the Cold War, has demanded speed, visibility, and measurable results in state-building exercises.    From Wordnik.com.  [After Reconstruction] Reference

The entire structure of the PA is in fact hurting our friends by tasking them with managing the occupation instead of concentrating on state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amjad Atallah: How To Kill Your Friends, Big and Small] Reference

SF: You know, I look at this issue in a way that's conceptually not different from the whole political process and the state-building track, in a dynamic setting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fadi Elsalameen: Prime Minister Fayyad 'Build, build despite the occupation'] Reference

The sine qua non for economic expansion has been the creation of the new Palestinian security services, which are a model for the state-building program in general.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Future Palestinian State Takes Root] Reference

SI Analysis on Iraq: The victory of the Gorran party in Kurdistan's elections may herald a new era of Kurdish politics that eschews corruption and fosters actual state-building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet: Weekly Foreign Affairs Roundup] Reference