American 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Dougherty, Kevin (Autor), Pauly, Robert J., 1967- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
Temas:
Nation-building > Cross-cultural studies.
Nation-building > United States.
Reconstruction d'une nation > Études transculturelles.
Reconstruction d'une nation > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > International.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > General.
Nation-building.
United States.
Cross-cultural studies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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-building.

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