nation building

“In 2001, the next Bush administration returned to topple the Taliban, but its ideological aversion to nation building ensured that Afghanistan was the least resourced per-capita reconstruction effort the U.S. has engaged in since World War II.”

Simon & Schuster: The Longest War

“Mr Smith: There was no discussion of the timeframe for RAMSI, but there are two general principles which apply, and I referred to one earlier, which is the new phase, the new partnership, the new RAMSI partnership, the basis on which we’ve been proceeding since our February meeting, is to more precisely coincide RAMSI’s capacity building efforts, or nation building efforts, to coincide those more precisely with the priorities of the Solomon Islands.”

Transcript - The Hon Stephen Smith MP, Minister for Foreign Affairs

“Accepted premises about nation building came in for close scrutiny, and some began to wonder if Soufh Vietnam would ever become a nation in its own right.”

On Yankee Station