After the period of initial military successes the state-building process began.

But a state-building mechanism was in gear, financed by aid from around the world.

Should it stand as a warning against state-building projects in strange and violent settings, like the Balkans?

His research concerns international law, conceptions of public authority, state-building and post-conflict reconstruction.

For a long time to come we shall be deeply involved in assisting the state-building process in Kosovo.

We remain committed to continuing to support their state-building plan and its implementation, both politically and financially.

"This support is a major vote of confidence in the achievements of the Palestinian state-building agenda.

Various incidents centered on basic articles of the constitution had the effect of undermining the entire state-building process.

This article subsequently became cited in the state-building literature, and was said to be a catalyst for disintegration of the country's international governing structure.

The paper moved the debate forward by offering models of how indegenous state-building dynamics may work in practice (the Whaites model).

In the end Calles had to realize that he could not continue the state-building project while persecuting a significant part of Mexico's population.

Research into the gaps in provision, delivery and access of basic services has queried whether social protection interventions have contributed to state-building processes.

In the pre-state yishuv period, most Hebrew press editors felt that their primary role was educational, to help in the state-building process.

The endogenous model, with its emphasis on composite state-building processes, would have major implications for donor programmes, diplomacy and peace-keeping.

Bensel investigates five dimensions of substantive state-building policies:

Surrounded by enemies, compelled to fight for his country's survival, the state-building sabra is who he is by necessity.

State-building failure in British Ireland & French Algeria.

- Boston Negotiations and State-building Program.

Bensel argues that the state-building trajectory taken by the Union during the Civil War had a highly self-limiting character.

It does, however, potentially leave a gap in terms of strategies for the international community to support positive state-building processes in poor, post-conflict and weak states.

We continue our road map monitoring work, and we also deploy state-building assistance, including in sensitive areas such as the rule of law and border management.

We are very committed to Prime Minister Fayyad's state-building plan and to enhancing the institutions, particularly in terms of the rule of law.

Across the two streams of theory and writing there is a broader consensus that lessons on how to support state-building processes have not yet been fully learnt.

The development of Spanish nationalism has been tied to the state-building process of the Castillian-ruled Spanish monarchy.

Turning a humanitarian mission into a coercive state-building effort angered local militia bosses, leading to the now-infamous "Black Hawk Down" attack.