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No one likes nationbuilding. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism.Keith W. Mines has taken part in nationbuilding efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In Why NationBuilding Matters he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a highyield investment in our own nations global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projectsin Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraqinform Miness indepth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail. Building on that analysis, he establishes a framework for nationbuilding in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blend soft and hard power into an effective package.Grounded in realworld experience, Why NationBuilding Matters is an informed and essential guide to meeting one of the foremost challenges of our foreign policy present and future.
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