Two days ago, while waiting for Santa Claus to come, I had a very interresting (and very drunk) conversation about how to build a State in a non State environment.
The question we finally came with was:
When you try to build a state from scratch, like in Afghanistan or Sudan (different setting, context, history... all agreed in advance), is dictatorship a necessary path or just the wall we all end up hitting?
The point was that despite using the democratic tool box, what ever the exemple you look at closely, you always end in a fake state (most of the time with a military like dictatorship or, at the best, a kleptocracy).
Somehow, it is different from that particular threat and I leave to TheCurmudgeon the right to expel me and my question out to another threat.
Moderator's Note: a good question and so different a new thread has been started on your behalf:http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/...ad.php?t=12117
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