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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009179203321

Autore

Phillips Rufus C

Titolo

Stabilizing Fragile States : Why It Matters and What to Do about It

Pubbl/distr/stampa

La Vergne : , : University Press of Kansas, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

9780700633050

0700633057

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 pages)

Collana

Studies in civil-military relations

ADST-DACOR diplomats and diplomacy series

Altri autori (Persone)

McMasterH. R

Disciplina

327.1/10973

Soggetti

Political stability

Nation-building

Legitimacy of governments

Internal security

Diplomatic relations

Reconstruction d'une nation - États-Unis

Internal security - Developing countries

Political stability - Developing countries

Legitimacy of governments - Developing countries

Nation-building - United States

United States

Developing countries

États-Unis Relations exterieures

United States Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Foreword / by H.R. McMaster -- Foreword / by William A Taylor -- Understanding the challenge -- Background -- Significant factors -- Public support -- Essential ideas and terms -- Interventions -- Cold War cases -- Iraq -- Afghanistan -- Colombia -- How to do better -- Existing capabilities and organizational change -- Organizing for better assistance -- Mission and roles -- Recruitment, education, and training



-- Field organization, operations, and financing -- Stabilization strategy and implementation in a hypothetical state -- The future -- Appendix: Proposed education and training program.

Sommario/riassunto

"Stabilizing Fragile States is about intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success. Recent US involvements have ranged in intensity and size from Colombia, which did not put American boots on the ground, to massive interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which did. The lack of success in Afghanistan and Iraq has tended to dominate the national conversation about dealing with fragile states. Helping stabilize fragile states has been too much of a poorly informed, impersonal, technocratic and conflicted process, dominated by reactions to events and missing a more human approach tailored to various countries' circumstances. In this book, Rufus Phillips explains why we have not been more successful and what it would take to make this form of foreign intervention effective and sustainable"--