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DAVID WALDNER, State Building and Late Development (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1999). Pp. 256. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2001

Michael Barnett
Michael Barnett
Affiliation:
Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Abstract

David Waldner's book is a rigorously argued and impressively sustained account of the relationship between state-building and economic growth in four late-developing countries: South Korea, Syria, Taiwan, and Turkey. By systematically and crisply using a comparative method to bring a unified story to these different histories, Waldner demonstrates in a masterly way the benefits of genuine comparative inquiry; contributes to our understanding of the painful results of economic development in the Middle East; and uses Middle Eastern cases to advance our understanding of the complicated and mediated linkage between state formation and economic development. This ambitious book deserves a wide audience.

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BOOK REVIEW
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International Journal of Middle East Studies , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , May 2000 , pp. 319 - 322
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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