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Are We All Nation-Builders Now?
01 Jan 2007-pp 138-160
TL;DR: Erdmann and Nossel as mentioned in this paper have worked in the US government as a member of the secretary of state's policy planning staff; senior advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research with the Coalition Provisional Authority and, lastly, director for Iran, Iraq, and Strategic Planning on the National Security Council staff.
Abstract: Andrew Erdmann is a management consultant. His client experience includes work in the retail, energy, and public sectors. Between 2001 and 2005 he served with the US government as a member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff; senior advisor to the Ministry of Higher Education & Scientific Research with the Coalition Provisional Authority and, lastly, director for Iran, Iraq, and Strategic Planning on the National Security Council staff. Trained as a historian of US foreign relations, he has also taught international affairs at Harvard and George Washington University. Suzanne Nossel founded the Democracy Arsenal weblog and writes a column on foreign policy for The New Republic online. She has served as a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress and the Century Foundation. During the Clinton administration she was deputy to the ambassador for UN Management and Reform under Ambassador Richard Holbrooke. Nossel has also served as masthead vice president of Sales Strategy and Operations for The Wall Street Journal, as vice president of Strategy and Business Development for Bertelsmann, Inc., and as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. She currently serves as chief of operations for a large global NGO.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of United Nations Complex Peace Operations and the use of force to maintain law and order in post-conflict regions. But their focus is on elections and exit strategies: No Exit without a Strategy, or No Strategy without an Exit.
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TL;DR: The authors presents a comprehensive history of best practices in nation-building and serves as an indispensable reference for planning future interventions, including the United States, NATO, the United Nations, and a range of other states and nongovernmental organizations.
Abstract: Since the end of the Cold War, the United States, NATO, the United Nations, and a range of other states and nongovernmental organizations have become increasingly involved in nation-building operations. This volume presents a comprehensive history of best practices in nation-building and serves as an indispensable reference for planning future interventions.
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TL;DR: The seminal events of the Clinton administration were three failed military interventions in its first nine months in office: the announced intention, then failure, to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia's Muslims and bomb the Bosnian Serbs in May 1993; the deaths of 18 U.S. Army rangers at the hands of a mob in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 3; and the turning back of a ship carrying military trainers in response to demonstrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, onOctober 12 as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The seminal events of the foreign policy of the Clinton adminis tration were three failed military interventions in its first nine months in office: the announced intention, then failure, to lift the arms embargo against Bosnia's Muslims and bomb the Bosnian Serbs in May 1993; the deaths of 18 U.S. Army rangers at the hands of a mob in Mogadishu, Somalia, on October 3; and the turning back of a ship carrying military trainers in response to demonstrations in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on October 12. Together they set the tone and established much of the agenda of the foreign policy of the United States from 1993 through 1995. These failed interventions expressed the view of the worldwide role of the United States that the members of the Clinton foreign policy team brought to office. Their distinctive vision of post-Cold War American foreign policy failed because it did not command public support. Much of the administrations first year was given over to mak ing that painful discovery. Much of the next two years was devoted to coping with the consequences of the failures ofthat first year. Bosnia, Somalia, and Haiti were not, as the administration claimed, problems it had inherited. The Bush administration had sent troops to Somalia for the limited purpose of distributing food
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29 Mar 2001
TL;DR: The authors reviewed the UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compared those missions with U.S. nation-building operations, concluding that the UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men, with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy.
Abstract: Reviews UN efforts to transform eight unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners, and compares those missions with U.S. nation-building operations. The UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men — one with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy.
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