Armed state building
Subtitle: confronting state failure, 1898-2012
By: Paul D. Miller
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801451492
Subjects: Intervention (International law); Failed states; Postwar reconstruction; Nation-building
Description: "Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century--including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire, and Lebanon--and the number of candidate nations for such campaigns in the future is substantial. Even with a broad definition of success, earlier campaigns failed more than half the time. In this book, Paul D. Miller brings his decade in the U.S. military, intelligence community, and policy worlds to bear on the question of what causes armed, international state-building campaigns by liberal powers to succeed or fail"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
Table of contents: title: The myth of sequencing; title: Statehood; title: State failure; title: Statebuilding; title: Strategies of statebuilding; title: Case studies.