Armed State Building : : Confronting State Failure, 1898-2012 / / Paul D. Miller.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.) :; 19 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • 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