Cover: Overcoming Obstacles to Peace

Overcoming Obstacles to Peace

Published in: Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, v. 55, no. 1, Feb.-Mar. 2013, p. 103-120

Posted on RAND.org on February 01, 2013

by James Dobbins

The memory of a few spectacular failures has created the impression that nation-building seldom succeeds. Yet most such operations over the past 20 years have produced positive results.

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