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Title Nation-building [electronic resource] : beyond Afghanistan and Iraq / edited by Francis Fukuyama.

Imprint Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Description x, 262 p.
Series Forum on constructive capitalism
Forum on constructive capitalism.
Note "Product of a conference held at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), the Johns Hopkins University, in April 2004"--Acknowledgments.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Nation-building and the failure of institutional memory / Francis Fukuyama -- From consensus to crisis : the postwar career of nation-building in U.S. foreign relations / David Ekbladh -- Nation-building in the heyday of the classic development ideology : Ford Foundation experience in the 1950s and 1960s / Francis X. Sutton -- Building nations : the American experience / Minxin Pei, Samia Amin, and Seth Garz -- Nation-building : lessons learned and unlearned / Michele A. Flournoy -- Sovereignty and legitimacy in Afghan nation-building / S. Frederick Starr -- Rebuilding Afghanistan : impediments, lessons, and prospects / Marvin G. Weinbaum -- The lessons of nation-building in Afghanistan / Larry P. Goodson -- What went wrong and right in Iraq / Larry Diamond -- Striking out in Baghdad : how postconflict reconstruction went awry / Johanna Mendelson Forman -- Learning the lessons of Iraq / James Dobbins -- Guidelines for future nation-builders / Francis Fukuyama.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Nation-building -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Fukuyama, Francis.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0801883342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801883350 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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