Nation-Building - Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq

Acknowledgments vii List of Abbreviations ix INTRODUCTION Nation-Building and the Failure of Institutional Memory 1(18) Francis Fukuyama Part I The Historical Experience of Nation-Building CHAPTER 1 From Consensus to Crisis: The Postwar Career of Nation-Building in U.S. Foreign Relations 19(23) David Ekbladh CHAPTER 2 Nation-Building in the Heyday of the Classic Development Ideology: Ford Foundation Experience in the 1950's and 1960's 42(22) Francis X. Sutton CHAPTER 3 Building Nations: The American Experience 64(22) Minxin Pei, Samia Amin, and Seth Garz CHAPTER 4 Nation-Building: Lessons Learned and Unlearned 86(21) Michèle A. Flournoy Part II Afghanistan CHAPTER 5 Sovereignty and Legitimacy in Afghan Nation-Building 107(18) S. Frederick Starr CHAPTER 6 Rebuilding Afghanistan: Impediments, Lessons, and Prospects 125(20) Marvin G. Weinbaum CHAPTER 7 The Lessons of Nation-Building in Afghanistan 145(28) Larry P. Goodson Part III Iraq CHAPTER 8 What Went Wrong and Right in Iraq 173(23) Larry Diamond CHAPTER 9 Striking Out in Baghdad: How Postconflict Reconstruction Went Awry 196(22) Johanna Mendelson Forman CHAPTER 10 Learning the Lessons of Iraq 218(13) James Dobbins CONCLUSION Guidelines for Future Nation-Builders 231(14) Francis Fukuyama Contributors 245(6) Index 251