Position Overview The John Glenn College of Public Affairs seeks to hire semester Lecturers to teach in-person courses in Spring 2025.PUBAFRS 5700 Rebuilding Failed and Weak States This course tackles the question of how to design policies and programs to rebuild failed and weak states into functioning, if not vibrant, democracies. In pursuit of this end, we will examine the causes of nation state failure, the trajectories or pathways to and from failure, and the ingredients purported to contribute to the consolidation of democracy. Further, the course examines 1) what makes a state a state, 2) whether some states should be allowed to fail, and 3) whether some states should be recognized at all. Primary focus is on how international aid policy-m