Screen LibraryAmerican nation-building : case studies from Reconstruction to Afghanistan /
"Nation-building enterprises by the United States and the broader international community have run the gamut of success and failure. Examining the history of America's experience in nation-building, this book describes the mechanisms behind what often appears to be a haphazard enterprise&q...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Jefferson, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"Nation-building enterprises by the United States and the broader international community have run the gamut of success and failure. Examining the history of America's experience in nation-building, this book describes the mechanisms behind what often appears to be a haphazard enterprise"-- |
| Carrier Form: | vii, 232 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-228) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780786497966 0786497963 |
| Index Number: | JZ6300 |
| CLC: | D871.22 |
| Call Number: | D871.22/D732 |
| Contents: | Nation-building in context -- The cases for and against nation-building -- Altruistic nation-building : Somalia -- Self-interested nation-building : Roosevelt's corollary -- Sequencing security : the Philippines and Germany -- Armed resistance to nation-building : the U.S. South during reconstruction -- Nation-building at the local level : Vietnam -- Nation-building at the national level : Iraq -- Nation-building and civil society : Mitchelville -- The American government as nation-builder: USAID Afghanistan -- NGOs and IGOs as nation-builders : Bosnia -- The future of nation- and state-buil |