State-building, has now established itself as an accepted form of international intervention.The idea that international institutions or major powers should intervene in so-called 'weak' or 'failing' states to rebuild state institutions is no longer controversial, even when this means temporarily rescinding the rights of non-intervention and national sovereignty. In fact, in a reversal of traditional ways of perceiving security threats, today it is weak and so-called 'failing states' that are considered a menace, not the…
