{"pk":38115,"title":"Failed States and Nation-Building: A Cultural Evolutionary Perspective","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This concluding article of the Special Issue on Failed States and Nation-Building argues that the science of social and cultural evolution can make valuable contributions to our collective capacity for peace- and state-building. It also reviews other papers in the Special Issue, and discusses how the different themes raised by the authors are tied together within the unifying theoretical framework of cultural evolution.","language":"en","license":null,"keywords":[{"word":"cultural evolution"},{"word":"failed states"},{"word":"nation-building"},{"word":"Political Science"}],"section":"Article","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6mb0x0s7","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Peter","middle_name":"","last_name":"Turchin","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Connecticut","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2012-07-08T00:43:02+03:00","date_accepted":"2012-07-08T00:43:02+03:00","date_published":"2012-06-30T10:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cliodynamics/article/38115/galley/28681/download/"}]}