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.
The United States successfully rebuilt the West German and
Japanese states after World War II but failed to build a
functioning state in South Vietnam. After the Cold War the United
Nations oversaw relatively successful campaigns to restore order,
hold elections, and organize post-conflict reconstruction in
Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, but those successes
were overshadowed by catastrophes in Angola, Liberia, and Somalia.
The recent effort in Iraq and the ongoing one in Afghanistan where
Miller had firsthand military, intelligence, and policymaking
experience are yielding mixed results, despite the high levels of
resources dedicated and the long duration of the missions there.
Miller outlines different types of state failure, analyzes various
levels of intervention that liberal states have tried in the
state-building process, and distinguishes among the various
failures and successes those efforts have provoked."
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