After conflicts end, allied nations must undertake military, political, humanitarian, and economic activities to enable states to prosper, but these activities do not always succeed. RAND has examined U.S., United Nations, and European Union nation-building efforts since World War II to determine key principles for their success and draw implications for current and future nation-building investment.
COMMENTARY
commentaries by RAND Staff: insightful commentaries on current events, published in newspapers, magazines and journals worldwide.
COMMENTARY
In the wake of the war in Iraq, the world is learning once again that is far easier to destroy a regime with military might than to build a new state out of the bomb craters.
COMMENTARY
The hopeful case for postwar Iraq is worth considering, writes Gregory Treverton in a San Francisco Chronicle commentary.
COMMENTARY
Published commentary by RAND staff.
REPORT
This monograph reviews events since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and discusses the current state of al Qaeda and the kinds of actions that can be expected of it in the future. Al Qaeda constitutes the most serious immediate threat to the security of the United States, so the campaign against terrorism must remain focused. The monograph describes the central elements that must be emphasized in the next, more-complex phase…
JOURNAL ARTICLE
During the Eisenhower administration, the United States began its first systematic program of support to foreign police and paramilitary forces.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
This paper proposes a better strategy for arriving at answers to the critical question why do states do what they do? by focusing on and elaborating state autonomy theory.
REPORT
A caveat against the mislessons and nonlessons that might be drawn from the Vietnam War, and a discussion of principal areas of disagreement about policy and objectives.
REPORT
A discussion of the role of revolutionary war in nation building.
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Research Project Associate
M.P.A., John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; M.Sc. in software engineering and information technology, National Center for Information Technology, Institute of Graduate Studies, Baghdad; B.S. in solid state and nuclear physics, Al-Nahrain University for Engineering and Science Technology
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Leader, Global Health Initiative, RAND Health; Director, RAND Palestine Initiative
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, M.A. in economic history, University of Pennsylvania; B.A. in history, Williams College
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Senior Political Scientist
B.S. in criminal justice, Arizona State University; Ph.D. in political science/international relations, University of California, Los Angeles
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Political Scientist
Ph.D., Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
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Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center, RAND National Defense Research Institute
B.S. in international affairs, Georgetown School of Foreign Service
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Senior Policy Researcher
Ph.D. in American history, University of Kansas; M.S. in systems management, University of Southern California; M.S. in civil engineering and m.s. in operations research, Stanford University; M.M.A.S. in civil engineering and m.s. in operations research, School of Advanced Military Studies; B.S. in civil engineering and m.s. in operations research, United States Military Academy, West Point
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Senior Political Scientist
Ph.D. and M.A. in political science, University of Chicago; A.B., Bowdoin College
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.Phil. in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.A. in international development, School of International Service, American University; B.A. in economics, Ohio Wesleyan University
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Associate Dean, Pardee RAND Graduate School
M.A. in Japanese studies and international economics, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University; B.A. in history, The College of Wooster
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Political Scientist
Ph.D. in political science, University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in international relations, San Francisco State University
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