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Book SynopsisSutton, Ford Foundation Emeritus; Marvin G. Weinbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Trade ReviewA valuable resource filled with critical reflection and evaluation and offering valuable suggestions to reduce future mistakes... a sober testimony and very highly recommended. Bookwatch 2006 This is an important collection, indeed, offering a clear analysis of the lessons of the past, mistakes made in the present, and humane yet pragmatic recommendations for the future. -- Fatima Raja McGill International Review 2006 A significant contribution to the very young literature about America's experience in nation-building. -- Benjamin Zyla Canadian Army Journal 2006
Table of ContentsAckowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Nation-Building and the Failure of Institutional Memory
Part I. The Historical Experience of Nation-Building
1. From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career of Nation-Building in U.S. Foreign Reltions
2. Nation-Building in the Heydey of the Classic Development Ideology: Ford Founation Experience in the 1950s and 1960s
3. Bulding Nations: The American Experience
4. Nation-Building: Lessons Learned and Unlearned
Part II. Afghanistan
5. Sovereignty and Legitimacy in Afghan Nation-Building
6. Rebuilding Afghanistan: Impediments, Loessons, and Prospects
7. The Lessons of Nation-Building in Afghanistan
Part III. Iraq
8. What Went Wring and Right in Iraq
9. Striking Out in Baghdad: How Postconflict Reconstruction Went Awry
10. Learning the Lessons of Iraq
Conclusion: Guidelines for Future Nation-Builders
Contributors
Index
