Fools Errands: Americas Recent Encounters with Nation Building
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Description Details Customer Reviews n the decade following the end of the Cold War the United States undertook several nation-building missions around the globe, most of which have failed. We said we'd bring order to Somalia, but we left chaos.
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We went to Haiti to restore democracy, but left tyranny. We intervened in Kosovo to create a multiethnic democracy, but we may become embroiled in renewed strife and bloodshed. This extremely timely book cuts through the excuses and uncovers the causes of Washington's pattern of failure.
Electronic book text Pages: We are committed not only to making Kosovo safe but to helping people rebuild their lives, rebuild their communities. But were Clinton and Albright right? Is the United States government really any good at "helping people" in troubled places?
Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation Building
America's recent encounters with nation building suggest the contrary. Indeed, Washington said it would bring order to Somalia but left chaos; it went to Haiti to restore democracy but produced tyranny; it intervened in Bosnia to reverse the effects of a civil war but now oversees an unsustainable peace; and it occupied Kosovo to build a multiethnic democracy but has instead witnessed ethnic cleansing on a widespread scale.
That all these recent attempts at nation building have not actually solved the problem they set out to address seems not to have phased policy makers.
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Yet before Washington's troubling pattern of failures can be accounted for in more detail, it is first necessary to define the term nation building and its place within America's post-Cold War foreign policy. Nation building is perhaps the most intrusive form of foreign intervention there is. It is the massive foreign regulation of the policy making of another country. The process usually entails the replacement or, in the case of a country in a state of anarchy, the creation of governmental institutions and a domestic political leadership that are more to the liking of the power or powers conducting the intervention.
Since such profound interference tends to elicit resistance, the nation-building process typically requires a substantial military presence to impose the nation-building plan on the target country. It concluded the nineteenth century with a war to "liberate" Cuba from Spanish "tyranny.
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Dermot Healy's fourth collection presents itself as a book-length poem that charts the annual migrations of thousands of barnacle geese between their breeding grounds in Greenland and their winter quarters on an island beside his home. A second lesson is that nation building is a fool's errand if the country in question is not "ripe" for the effort.