The objective is not to engage in what some call nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [How Wars end] Reference
We will not deviate from that nation-building task. From Wordnik.com. [Father Disfigure] Reference
We need to acknowledge that, yes, we do nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [What We Must Do Now] Reference
Next are those who know something about nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Peace A Real Chance] Reference
History is certainly useful as a tool of nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [At War With History] Reference
Rumsfeld is wary of having the Pentagon involved in nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Needed: An Army Of Builders] Reference
What's happening in Liberia doesn't look much like nation-building yet. From Wordnik.com. [Days Of Hope, Days Of Fear] Reference
Iraq might be stumbling toward nation-building by consent, not brutality. From Wordnik.com. [Appalling--But Not Hopeless] Reference
Washington's history of nation-building in those places is decidedly mixed. From Wordnik.com. [Days Of Hope, Days Of Fear] Reference
Douglas MacArthur had five times the number when he was nation-building in Japan. From Wordnik.com. [What We Should Do Now] Reference
First, the postwar "nation-building" of Iraq will be as crucial as the war itself. From Wordnik.com. [Invade Iraq, But Bring Friends] Reference
But nation-building is ultimately not a managerial challenge; it's a political one. From Wordnik.com. [How To Make Friends In Iraq] Reference
In the past I have been skeptical of nation-building in places like Somalia and Haiti. From Wordnik.com. [Next: 'Nation-Building Lite'] Reference
Project FX is thus part of the Korean nation-building project that goes back to the war. From Wordnik.com. [A Political Dogfight On The Korean Front] Reference
America's future conflicts are all likely to be short on war and long on nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Needed: An Army Of Builders] Reference
Billions in untapped oil reserves were going to pay for reconstruction and nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Baghdad's Big Oil Bust] Reference
And then there are those who know nothing about either the country or about nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Peace A Real Chance] Reference
What do you think the public appetite is now for nation-building, in Afghanistan or elsewhere?. From Wordnik.com. [A Date With History] Reference
They tend to be mired in the local culture so that they believe nation-building is impossible. From Wordnik.com. [Giving Peace A Real Chance] Reference
Counterinsurgency and nation-building, which is what we're talking about, is a long, hard slog. From Wordnik.com. [Musharraf’s Last Stand] Reference
After looking like a relative success of "nation-building lite," Afghanistan may be regressing. From Wordnik.com. [Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted] Reference
But nation-building ultimately succeeds or fails on the basis not of engineering but of politics. From Wordnik.com. [OUR LAST REAL CHANCE] Reference
As a model for nation-building, Kosovo must be counted a success -- but it is by no means assured. From Wordnik.com. [The Dangers Of Drift] Reference
The war in Iraq, I wrote, would be nation-building on a grand scale, a disaster waiting to happen. From Wordnik.com. [Living the Worst-Case Scenario] Reference
We don't do "nation-building," American leaders declared, as if that were something to be proud of. From Wordnik.com. [What We Must Do Now] Reference
That's not much of a consolation to those who came back to the West Bank intent on nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [America's Uneasy Export] Reference
Our new vulnerability is all the more reason to pursue a more enlightened course of nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [Mail Call] Reference
But they asked that it take place under U.N. auspices, as had all recent nation-building, including Afghanistan's. From Wordnik.com. [OUR LAST REAL CHANCE] Reference
Afghanistan: Hamid Karzai's interim administration became more permanent and shifted its focus to nation-building. From Wordnik.com. [The Top Stories Of 2002] Reference
What's more, there are typically many actors in any nation-building mission now, which can create policy confusion. From Wordnik.com. [Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted] Reference
But 9-11 should have also changed America's notions of peacekeeping, nation-building and humanitarian intervention. From Wordnik.com. [Our New Civil War] Reference
On the Iraq front, we examine perhaps the biggest threat to our hopes of democratic nation-building: religious radicalism. From Wordnik.com. [The Editor's Desk] Reference
In the 1960s, as colonialism wound down, the European powers proved relatively weak themselves at nation-building in Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Nation Building: Not for the Fainthearted] Reference
They abandoned plans for ambitious nation-building and instead sought a way to transfer power quickly to trustworthy elites. From Wordnik.com. [OUR LAST REAL CHANCE] Reference
I came from a situation in Iraq in the '60s and' 70s where it was all about new ideas, nation-building and progressive thinking. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons From the Front Lines] Reference
Despite Washington's tentative approach toward nation-building, the war in Afghanistan has vastly improved the lives of the Afghan people. From Wordnik.com. [It's Time To Talk To The World] Reference
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