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Stabilizing Fragile States - Why It Matters and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
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Stabilizing Fragile States - Why It Matters and What to Do about It (Hardcover)
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Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It
is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in
the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and
how the United States can do better at less cost with improved
chances of success. Written from the point of view of an
on-the-ground practitioner after exceptional government and
voluntary service abroad, Rufus C. Phillips III uses his experience
to explain why US efforts to help fragile countries stabilize is
important to national security. Helping stabilize fragile states
has been too much of a poorly informed, impersonal, technocratic,
and conflicted process that has been dominated by reactions to
events and missing a more human approach tailored to various
countries' circumstances. In his book, Phillips explains why we
have not been more successful and what it would take to make our
stabilization efforts effective, sustainable, and less expensive.
Recent US involvements have ranged in intensity and size from
Colombia, which did not put US boots on the ground, to massive
interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which did. The lack of
success in Afghanistan and Iraq has tended to dominate the national
conversation about dealing with fragile states. Stabilizing Fragile
States provides a thorough analysis of what has gone wrong and what
has gone right in US involvement. * Stabilizing fragile states is
more of an unconventional political and psychological endeavor
requiring an operational mindset rather than conventional war or
normal diplomacy. * Defines the focus of counterinsurgency not as
killing insurgents but as a positive effort to win local people's
support by involving them in their own self-defense and political,
social, and economic development. * Americans must understand the
religious, historical, political, and social context of the host
country and be consistent, patient, and persistent in what they do.
* Security-force training in host countries must include respect
for civilians and the definition by their leadership of a national
cause that the trainees believe is worth risking their lives to
defend. * Recommends creating a dedicated cadre of expeditionary
diplomacy and development professionals in Department of
State/USAID and a special training school as an addition to the
Global Fragility Act.
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