LYNDA S. ROADES
3:00 – 4:00 PM | TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS
OCTOBER 6 THROUGH 15

Toppling a government is one thing; building a functioning state is another. Long-term stability depends on whether institutions can be strengthened, rebuilt, or created to provide security, justice, basic services, political order, and public trust.

Too often, state-building is thought to be a technical exercise of plans, briefings, dashboards, and reports. But it is shaped by conflict, history, personalities, local conditions, and differing opinions on what success looks like.

Topics include

• The Cold War Crucible: Berlin in Transition
• Dismantling the Bear: The Post- Soviet Transition
• Fire and Friction: Post-9/11 Iraq and Afghanistan
• Micro-States: Building Sovereign States in the Pacific

Lynda S. Roades draws on her experiences in Cold War Berlin, the post-Soviet world, Iraq and Afghanistan after 9/11, and the Compact states of the North Pacific.