The difference between state building and nation building is not always appreciated. Simon Chesterman uses only the term state-building, because, he claims, nation-building is specific to post-colonial situations. James Dobbins and his co-authors at RAND solve the problem in an equally sweeping, but opposite fashion by declaring all US involvements in post-conflict reconstruction, from Germany to Iraq, to have been exercises in nationbuilding. Francis Fukuyama acknowledges that there is a distinction between state-building and nation-building but his usage of both terms would suggest that he regards nation-building as a term employed in the language of politics describing what he-in academic discourse-calls statebuilding. See J.
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