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The Promise, the Peril.(rebuilding nations)(Statistical Data Included)
How do you build a nation? Leaders have asked that question for literally thousands of years. From Shaka Zulu to Bismarck, military rulers did it by uniting disparate clans through the conquest of land and the cultivation of "national" pride. In colonial times the European and American powers did it through subjugation and might. But since the end of the cold war--and the diplomatic paralysis that it produced--the job of creating nations from failed states has fallen increasingly to the nebulous "international community" through the United Nations.
To the United Nations' chagrin, nation-building is still more of an art than a science. The international community ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, The Promise, the Peril.(rebuilding nations)(Statistical Data Included)