Title: Armed humanitarians : the rise of the nation builders /
Authors: Hodge, Nathan.
Publisher: Bloomsbury,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Humanitarian intervention Political aspects United States.; Nation-building United States.; United States Military policy.
Abstract: A critique of the United States's foreign policy and its experiment in armed nation-building traces the development and shortfalls of current theories about stability operations, militarized foreign assistance, and armed humanitarianism.
Contents: Absolute beginners -- The PowerPoint warrior -- "Beat 'em up and go home" -- The other war -- Cash as a weapon -- The phoenix rises -- The accidental counterinsurgents -- Wingtips on the ground -- Kalashnikovs for hire -- Peace Corps on steroids -- Windshield ethnographers -- Obama's war -- Conclusion: Foreign policy out of balance.