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Governments intervening in post-conflict states find themselves beset with numerous challenges and profound dilemmas: It is often unclear how best to proceed because measures that may improve conditions in one respect may undermine them in another. This volume reviews and integrates the scholarly social-science literature relevant to stabilization and reconstruction (S&R), with the goal of informing strategic planning at the whole-of-government level. The authors assert that S&R success depends on success in each of four component domains — political, social, security, and economic; the authors discuss each domain separately but emphasize their interactions and the idea that the failure of any component can doom S&R as a whole. The authors also focus on a number of dilemmas that intervenors in post-conflict states face — such as between short- and long-term goals and whether to work through or around the state's central government — and suggest how these dilemmas can be confronted depending on context.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

    Paul K. Davis

  • Chapter Two

    Establishing Security

    Christopher S. Chivvis and Paul K. Davis

  • Chapter Three

    Establishing Favorable Political Conditions

    Julie E. Taylor

  • Chapter Four

    Political Dilemmas of Stabilization and Reconstruction

    Stephen Watts

  • Chapter Five

    Establishing Social Conditions of Trust and Cooperation

    Elizabeth Wilke, Paul K. Davis, and Christopher S. Chivvis

  • Chapter Six

    Establishing Desirable Economic Conditions

    Claude Berrebi and Sarah Olmstead

  • Chapter Seven

    Dilemmas of Foreign Aid in Post-Conflict Areas

    Claude Berrebi and Véronique Thelen

  • Chapter Eight

    Final Observations

    Paul K. Davis

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