Local Government Capacity: Building in a Flat, Hot and Crowded Post-American World.

A Coherent Picture of the Future.

The United States has always had a strategy for defining and advancing America’s interests based on the idea that the government closest to the people was the best. Our nation started with a declaration based on principles of independence and freedom. As unlikely as it may seem, the lessons applicable to nation-building are useful when considering the situations of local governments in a global world.