{"product_id":"why-nation-building-matters","title":"Why Nation-Building Matters","description":"No one likes nation-building. The public dismisses it. Politicians criticize it. The traditional military disdains it, and civilian agencies lack the blueprint necessary to make it work. Yet functioning states play a foundational role in international security and stability. Left unattended, ungoverned spaces can produce crises from migration to economic collapse to terrorism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In \u003ci\u003eWhy Nation-Building Matters\u003c\/i\u003e 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 and fail. Building on that analysis, he establishes a framework for nation-building in the core areas of building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blend soft and hard power into an effective package.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Grounded in real-world experience, \u003ci\u003eWhy Nation-Building Matters\u003c\/i\u003e is an informed and essential guide to meeting one of the foremost challenges of our foreign policy present and future.","brand":"Potomac Books Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54243123921240,"sku":"9781640122826","price":39.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781640122826.jpg?v=1777697134","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/why-nation-building-matters","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}