On July 9, 2011 South Sudan achieved its independence as the newest nation among the global community.
Unfortunately, South Sudan is not yet a state.
It is not a state because its defective institutional foundations preclude coherent governance.
Peace is impossible under defective institutions-the shared norms, conventions, and laws that structure the necessary web of individual and collective interactions.
This book provides clarity about the required measures to create a coherent state-the ess.