Use these 2 authors to write the paper.
Francis Fukuyama “The Imperatives of State-Building.” Journal of Democracy 15, No. 2(April 2004), pp. 17-31
Charles Tilly, “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime.” In Evans, Rueschemeyer, and Skocpol, eds. Bringing the State Back In, Required: 169-172, 183-184 (recommended 169-191).