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  title info:
    title: Overcoming obstacles to peace
    sub title: local factors in nation-building
  name:
    name part: Dobbins, James
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Rand Corporation
    name part: National Security Research Division.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Case studies.
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xliii, 304 pages) : color illustrations, color maps.
  abstract: "This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 major post-Cold War nation-building interventions. The authors assess the risk of renewed conflict at the onset of the interventions and subsequent progress along five dimensions: security, democratization, government effectiveness, economic growth, and human development. They find that transformation of many of the specific conditions that gave rise to or fueled conflict often is not feasible in the time frame of nation-building operations but that such transformation has not proven essential to achieving the primary goal of nation-building -- establishing peace. Most interventions in the past 25 years have led to enduring peace, as well as some degree of improvement in the other dimensions assessed. The findings suggest the importance of setting realistic expectations -- neither expecting nation-building operations to quickly lift countries out of poverty and create liberal democracies, nor being swayed by a negative stereotype of nation-building that does not recognize its signal achievements in the great majority of cases."--Page 4 of cover.
  table of contents: Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Which Local Factors Pose Challenges to Nation-Building? -- Factors That Raise the Risk of Conflict Renewal -- Civil War Onset -- Civil War Recurrence -- How Great Is the Risk of Recurrence? -- Structure of the Case Studies -- Tailoring Nation-Building to Local Factors -- Chapter 3. Cambodia -- Local Factors Before the Peace -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Nation-Building Efforts -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Outcomes -- Local Attitudes -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Conclusions -- What Local Factors Posed the Greatest Challenges? -- Were Local Factors Modified or Circumvented to Promote Enduring Peace? -- Chapter 4. El Salvador -- Local Factors Before the Peace -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Nation-Building Efforts -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Outcomes -- Local Attitudes -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Conclusions -- What Local Factors Posed the Greatest Challenges? -- Were Local Factors Modified or Circumvented to Promote Enduring Peace? -- Chapter 5. Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Local Factors Before the Peace -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Nation-Building Efforts -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Outcomes -- Local Attitudes -- Geographical and Geopolitical -- Cultural and Social -- Economic -- Political -- Institutional -- Conclusions -- What Local Factors Posed the Greatest Challenges? -- Were Local Fact…
  note: James Dobbins, Laurel E. Miller, Stephanie Pezard, Christopher S. Chivvis, Julie E. Taylor, Keith Crane, Calin Trenkov-Wermuth, Tewodaj Mengistu.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nation-building
  subject:
    topic: Nation-building
    genre: Case studies
  subject:
    topic: Peace-building
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
    topic: Peace
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
    geographic: Asia
    geographic: Southeast Asia
  subject:
    topic: Democratization
  subject:
    topic: Nation-building
  subject:
    topic: Peace-building
  subject:
    topic: Befriedung
  subject:
    topic: Demokratisierung
  subject:
    topic: Friedenskonsolidierung
  subject:
    topic: Nationenbildung
  classification: JZ6300
  classification: JZ6300 .D65 2013eb online
  classification: 327.1/72
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 130111
    record change date: 20260612161135.2
    record identifier: in00003909421
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng