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Title After the war : nation-building from FDR to George W. Bush / James Dobbins [and others].

Imprint Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Security Research Division, 2008.

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Summary In recent decades, the United States' overwhelming military superiority has allowed it to 'overawe' or overrun adversaries with comparative ease. However, consolidating victory and preventing a renewal of conflict has usually taken more time, energy, and resources than originally foreseen. Few recent efforts of this sort can be regarded as unqualified successes, and one or two must be accounted as clear failures. Prior RAND research examined the factors that contribute to this success or failure, including the natures of the society being reformed and of the conflict being terminated, as well as the quality and quantity of the military and civil assets of external actors. This volume addresses the manner in which U.S. policy toward postconflict reconstruction has been created and implemented and the effect that these processes have had on mission outcomes. Through the lens of presidential decisionmaking style and administrative structure, from the post-World War II era through the Cold War, post-Cold War era, and current war on terrorism, it is both possible and necessary to reassess how these elements can work in favor of, as well as against, the nation-building goals of the U.S. government and military and those of its coalition partners and allies.
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Contents Introduction -- Presidential style, institutional structure, and bureaucratic process -- Post-World War II nation-building: Germany and Japan -- Post-Cold War nation-building: Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, and Kosovo -- Post-9/11 nation-building: Afghanistan and Iraq -- Toward better decisions and more competent execution.
Subject United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 -- Case studies.
United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- -- Case studies.
United States -- Military policy -- Case studies.
Nation-building -- Case studies.
Intervention (International law) -- Case studies.
Democratization -- Case studies.
États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1945-1989 -- Études de cas.
États-Unis -- Relations extérieures -- 1989- -- Études de cas.
Reconstruction d'une nation -- Études de cas.
Intervention (Droit international) -- Études de cas.
Démocratisation -- Études de cas.
HISTORY.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Comparative Politics.
Democratization
Diplomatic relations
Intervention (International law)
Military policy
Nation-building
United States https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq
Chronological Term Since 1945
Genre/Form Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Added Author Dobbins, James, 1942-
Carnegie Corporation of New York.
In: Books at JSTOR: Open Access JSTOR
Other Form: Print version: After the war. Santa Monica, CA : RAND National Security Research Division, 2008 9780833041814 0833041819 (DLC) 2008019408 (OCoLC)228631629
ISBN 9780833045560 (electronic bk.)
0833045563 (electronic bk.)
9780833041814 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0833041819 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9781281736635 (online)
1281736635
Report No. RAND/MG-716-CC
Standard No. AU@ 000051314526
DEBBG BV043170834
DEBSZ 422087327
GBVCP 1008651761
GBVCP 80268324X
NZ1 14240795
AU@ 000054166213

 
    
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