Why Nation-Building Matters
Why Nation-Building Matters No one likes nation-building. Politicians criticize it. The public dismisses it. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability.…
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Why Nation-Building Matters
No one likes nation-building. Politicians criticize it. The public dismisses it.
Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism.Keith W.
Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In Why Nation-Building Matters he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nation's global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projects--in Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq--inform Mines's in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed