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Author Mines, Keith W., author

Title Why nation-building matters : political consolidation, building security forces, and economic development in failed and fragile states / Keith W. Mines
Published Lincoln : Potomac Books, an imprint of University of Nebraska Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Diplomats and diplomacy series
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
Summary "Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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
Economic development projects
Failed states
Humanitarian intervention
Nation-building
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2019054497
ISBN 9781640123397
1640123393