- Description
- 1 online resource (pviii, 256 pages)
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Cornell studies in security affairs
- Uniform Title
- Armed state building (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Armed state building (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- The myth of sequencing -- Statehood -- State failure -- Statebuilding -- Strategies of statebuilding -- Case studies.
- LCCN
- 2013008335
- OCLC
- ssj0001035788
- Author
Miller, Paul D.
- Title
Armed state building [electronic resource] : confronting state failure, 1898-2012 / Paul D. Miller.
- Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2013]
- Series
Cornell studies in security affairs
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-248) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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