Armed state building : confronting state failure, 1898-2012 /

Armed state building : confronting state failure, 1898-2012 /

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Author / Creator:	Miller, Paul D., author.
Imprint:	Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Description:	viii, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cornell studies in security affairs Cornell studies in security affairs.
Subject:	Nation-building. Failed states. Postwar reconstruction. Intervention (International law) Failed states. Intervention (International law) Nation-building. Postwar reconstruction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9334088

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ISBN:	9780801451492 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801451493 (cloth : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-248) and index.
Summary:	"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"--

Table of 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