Overcoming obstacles to peace : local factors in nation-building /

Overcoming obstacles to peace : local factors in nation-building /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Dobbins, James, 1942- author.
Imprint:	Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (xliii, 304 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Language:	English
Series:	Rand Corporation monograph series Rand Corporation monograph series.
Subject:	Nation-building. Nation-building -- Case studies. Peace-building. Democratization. Democratization. Nation-building. Peace-building. Electronic books. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11169776

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Other authors / contributors:	Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division.
ISBN:	9780833078636 0833078631 9780833078612 0833078615 9780833078629 0833078623 9780833078605 0833078607
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource viewed 1 Mar. 2013.
Summary:	"This volume analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes of nation-building interventions in conflict-affected areas. Previous RAND studies of nation-building focused on external interveners' activities. This volume shifts the focus to internal circumstances, first identifying the conditions that gave rise to conflicts or threatened to perpetuate them, and then determining how external and local actors were able to modify or work around them to promote enduring peace. It examines in depth six varied societies: Cambodia, El Salvador, Bosnia and Herzegovina, East Timor, Sierra Leone, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It then analyzes a larger set of 20 major post-Cold War nation-building interventions. The authors assess the risk of renewed conflict at the onset of the interventions and subsequent progress along five dimensions: security, democratization, government effectiveness, economic growth, and human development. They find that transformation of many of the specific conditions that gave rise to or fueled conflict often is not feasible in the time frame of nation-building operations but that such transformation has not proven essential to achieving the primary goal of nation-building -- establishing peace. Most interventions in the past 25 years have led to enduring peace, as well as some degree of improvement in the other dimensions assessed. The findings suggest the importance of setting realistic expectations -- neither expecting nation-building operations to quickly lift countries out of poverty and create liberal democracies, nor being swayed by a negative stereotype of nation-building that does not recognize its signal achievements in the great majority of cases."--Page 4 of cover.
Other form:	Print version: Dobbins, James, 1942- Overcoming obstacles to peace 9780833078605

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Summary:	This monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to nation-building. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditions to promote enduring peace.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (xliii, 304 pages) : color illustrations, color maps
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	9780833078636 0833078631 9780833078612 0833078615 9780833078629 0833078623 9780833078605 0833078607