Title: American nation-building : case studies from Reconstruction to Afghanistan /
Authors: Dougherty, Kevin,; Pauly, Robert J., 1967-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Nation-building Cross-cultural studies.; Nation-building United States.; Nation-building; United States
Abstract: "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"--
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-building.