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010 _a 2004027669
020 _a0833035894 (pbk. : alk. paper)
020 _a0833037560 (electronic bk.)
020 _a9780833035899
020 _a9780833037565 (electronic bk.)
027 _aRAND/MG-304-RC
035 _a(Sirsi) lc490899
037 _c$35.00
_fpaperback
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dDLC
049 _aAlfaisal Main Library
050 0 0 _aJZ4984.5
_b.U534 2005
245 0 4 _aThe UN's role in nation-building :
_bfrom the Congo to Iraq /
_cJames Dobbins ... [et al.].
246 3 _aUnited Nation's role in nation-building
264 1 _aSanta Monica, CA :
_bRAND,
_c2005.
300 _axliii, 273 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c28 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 253-273).
505 0 _aCongo -- Namibia -- El Salvador -- Cambodia -- Mozambique -- Eastern Slavonia -- Sierra Leone -- East Timor -- Iraq -- Conclusion -- Comparative analysis -- The U.S. and UN ways of nation building.
520 _aReviews nearly 50 years of UN nation-building efforts to transform unstable countries into democratic, peaceful, and prosperous partners. The authors examine the UN's experience in the Congo, Namibia, El Salvador, Cambodia, Mozambique, Eastern Slavonia, Sierra Leone, and East Timor, as well as the U.S. experience in Iraq. The book complements the authors' earlier study, America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq (MR-1753-RC), which focuses on U.S.-led nation-building efforts. UN missions are nearly always undermanned and underfunded, with uneven troop quality and late-arriving components. But despite these handicaps, the UN success rate among missions studied-seven out of eight societies left peaceful, six out of eight left democratic-substantiates the view that nation-building can be an effective means of terminating conflicts, insuring against their reoccurrence, and promoting democracy. The authors conclude that the UN provides the most suitable institutional framework for nation-building missions that require fewer than 20,000 men-one with a comparatively low cost structure, a comparatively high success rate, and the greatest degree of international legitimacy. American or other major power leadership is, by contrast, needed for operations which require forced-entry operations or force levels in excess of 20,000 soldiers. Unfortunately, the United States has been less successful than the UN in learning from its mistakes and improving its nation-building performance over time, and this is reflected in the lower success rate among US-led missions studied in this series.
530 _aAlso available on the internet via WWW in PDF format.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations
_xEconomic assistance
_vCase studies.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations
_xMilitary policy
_vCase studies.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations
_xPeacekeeping forces
_vCase studies.
610 2 0 _aUnited Nations
_xTechnical assistance
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aDemocratization
_vCase studies.
650 0 _aPeace-building
_vCase studies.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
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700 1 _aDobbins, James,
_d1942-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aJones, Seth G.,
_d1972-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aCrane, Keith,
_d1953-
_eauthor.
700 1 _aRathmell, Andrew.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aSteele, Brett D.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aTeltschik, Richard.
_eauthor.
700 1 _aTimilsina, Anga R.
_eauthor.
710 _aRand eBooks.
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