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Why nation-building matters : political consolidation, building security forces, and economic development in failed and fragile states /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mines, Keith W. (Author)
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Series:ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series.
Subjects:
Nation-building > Case studies.
Humanitarian intervention > Case studies.
Economic development projects > Case studies.
Failed states > Case studies.
Postwar reconstruction > Government policy > United States > Case studies.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Colombia, 1978 : a battered state and a dramatic comeback
  • Grenada, 1983 : rescuing a hijacked country
  • El Salvador, 1984 : vaulting over two centuries of development
  • Somalia, 1994 : resisting nationhood
  • Haiti, 1996 : with a lot of help from my friends
  • Darfur, 2007 : beating back a genocide
  • Waking up to new threats on 9/11
  • Afghanistan, 2002 : starting from scratch
  • Iraq, 2003 : the cornered Sunnis of al Anbar
  • Afghanistan, 2012 : progress and challenge in the North
  • Epilogue : the American way of war.