Sentence examples for capable states from inspiring English sources

As I argue in more detail in an article in Prospect, in the past decade, the west has launched a huge experiment to build capable states in the world's most difficult countries.

The treaty has now been signed by 161 nations and ratified by 31 of the 44 nuclear-capable, or potentially capable, states named as necessary participants for it to enter into force.

The NPT, which has helped prevent a number of other capable states from going nuclear, and encouraged some which tried (Argentina and Brazil) and others which had succeeded (South Africa) to turn back, rests on a promise: that only those that renounce nuclear weapons qualify for civilian nuclear assistance.

Its battles are smaller, and involve the warlords who rule in the absence of a capable state.

Since 1968, Iraq's oil potential has been nurtured by its government oil concern, the Iraq National Oil Company, considered by most in the international oil industry as among the world's more capable state-run companies.

A bigger and busier government puts an onus on having a capable state and increases the cost of having a weak one.Most of the world's states are, however, poorly equipped to meet the challenge.

And the most capable state governor isn't going to prevent a sharp rise in unemployment when the national economy shrinks by 4%.We should be cautious, too, in attributing responsibility for structural trends.

Against libertarians like Friedrich Hayek, who try to explain society in terms of Homo economicus, he says that a strong and capable state has always been a precondition for a flourishing capitalist economy.

There was an immediate positive bounce in the Lebanese economy and the language of conciliation echoed from the victors, with the prime minister, Fouad Siniora, stressing that "the logic of the rule of the state should prevail, and a capable state can embrace all the Lebanese".

The three components of a modern political order — a strong and capable state, the state's subordination to a rule of law and government accountability to all citizens — had all been established in one or another part of the world by the end of the 18th century".

While I agree with Fukuyama's argument that, as Lind puts it, "a strong and capable state has always been a precondition for a flourishing capitalist economy," Hayek can hardly be accused of trying "to explain society in terms of Homo economicus".