Why Nation-Building Matters (eBook)

Political Consolidation, Building Security Forces, and Economic Development in Failed and Fragile States

Keith W. Mines (Autor)

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2020
400 Seiten
University of Nebraska (Verlag)
978-1-64012-337-3 (ISBN)

Infos

No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism. Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In Why Nation-Building Matters he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nations global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projectsin Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq-inform Miness in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail. Building on that analysis, he establishes a framework for nation-building in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blend soft and hard power into an effective package. Grounded in real-world experience, Why Nation-Building Matters is an informed and essential guide to meeting one of the foremost challenges of our foreign policy present and future.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• ISBN-10: 1-64012-337-7 / 1640123377
• ISBN-13: 978-1-64012-337-3 / 9781640123373