Nation-building : beyond Afghanistan and Iraq
Experts reflect on the United States experience with nation- building, from its historical underpinnings to its contemporary consequences. The contributors dissect mistakes, false starts, and lessons learned from the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq in the broader context of reconstruction efforts world-wide
Print Book, English, 2006
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2006
Kongress Baltimore (Md.) 2004
x, 262 pages ; 23 cm.
9780801883354, 9780801883347, 0801883342, 0801883350
61130669
Introduction: Nation-building and the failure of institutional memory / Francis Fukuyama
From consensus to crisis : the postwar career of nation-building in U.S. foreign relations / David Ekbladh
Nation-building in the heyday of the classic development ideology : Ford Foundation experience in the 1950s and 1960s / Francis X. Sutton
Building nations : the American experience / Minxin Pei, Samia Amin, and Seth Garz
Nation-building : lessons learned and unlearned / Michèle A. Flournoy
Sovereignty and legitimacy in Afghan nation-building / S. Frederick Starr
Rebuilding Afghanistan : impediments, lessons, and prospects / Marvin G. Weinbaum
The lessons of nation-building in Afghanistan / Larry P. Goodson
What went wrong and right in Iraq / Larry Diamond
Striking out in Baghdad : how postconflict reconstruction went awry / Johanna Mendelson Forman
Learning the lessons of Iraq / James Dobbins
Guidelines for future nation-builders / Francis Fukuyama
"Product of a conference held at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University, in April 2004"--Acknowledgments
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