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Armed state building [[electronic resource] ] : confronting state failure, 1898-2012 / / Paul D. Miller



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Autore: Miller Paul D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Armed state building [[electronic resource] ] : confronting state failure, 1898-2012 / / Paul D. Miller Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Ithaca, NY, : Cornell University Press, 2013
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (265 p.)
Disciplina: 327.1/1
Soggetto topico: Nation-building
Failed states
Postwar reconstruction
Intervention (International law)
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Myth of Sequencing -- 3. Statehood -- 4. State Failure -- 5. State Building -- 6. Strategies of State Building -- 7. Five State-Building Case Studies -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Case Selection -- Appendix B: Measuring Success and Failure -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.The United States successfully rebuilt the West German and Japanese states after World War II but failed to build a functioning state in South Vietnam. After the Cold War the United Nations oversaw relatively successful campaigns to restore order, hold elections, and organize post-conflict reconstruction in Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, but those successes were overshadowed by catastrophes in Angola, Liberia, and Somalia. The recent effort in Iraq and the ongoing one in Afghanistan-where Miller had firsthand military, intelligence, and policymaking experience-are yielding mixed results, despite the high levels of resources dedicated and the long duration of the missions there. Miller outlines different types of state failure, analyzes various levels of intervention that liberal states have tried in the state-building process, and distinguishes among the various failures and successes those efforts have provoked.
Titolo autorizzato: Armed state building  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8014-6953-8
0-8014-6954-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910462858303321
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Serie: Cornell studies in security affairs.