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Building the Nation draws from foreign-policy reports and
interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent
U.S.-led efforts to "nation build" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather
Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation build in both countries
mistakenly focused more on what should be called state building, or
how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a
viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might
truly be called nation building - the process of developing a sense
of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within
a state's borders and popular support for the state and its
government. According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the
modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and
Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the
state that gives the population ownership of the process and its
results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg
offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies
could have used a population-centric approach to build viable
states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would
have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg
proposes a six-step program for state and nation building in the
twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much
about how state building is done as they are about specific goals
or programs.
This monograph examines prewar planning efforts for the
reconstruction of postwar Iraq. It then examines the role of U.S.
military forces after major combat officially ended on May 1, 2003,
through June 2004. Finally, it examines civilian efforts at
reconstruction, focusing on the activities of the Coalition
Provisional Authority and its efforts to rebuild structures of
governance, security forces, economic policy, and essential
services.
Reports the results of a workshop bringing together intelligence
analysts and experts on religion to address religious motivations
for violence. Reports the result of a workshop that brought
together intelligence analysts and experts on religion with the
goal of providing background and a frame of reference for assessing
religious motivations in international politics and discovering
what causes religiously rooted violence and how states have sought
to take advantage of or contain religious violence-with emphasis on
radical Islam.
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