Research Catalog

Title

Nation-building : beyond Afghanistan and Iraq / edited by Francis Fukuyama.

Publication

Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Fukuyama, Francis

Description

x, 262 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Experts reflect on the United States experience with nation- building, from its historical underpinnings to its contemporary consequences. The contributors dissect mistakes, false starts, and lessons learned from the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq in the broader context of reconstruction efforts world-wide.

Series Statement

Forum on constructive capitalism

Uniform Title

Forum on constructive capitalism

Subject

• Nation-building > Congresses
• Reconstruction d'une nation > Congrès

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Congresses (form)
• Actes de congrès.

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 (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 / Michèle 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.

ISBN

• 0801883342 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780801883347 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0801883350 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780801883354 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2005019347

OCLC

• 61130669
• SCSB-12015986

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library