{"product_id":"building-the-nation-missed-opportunities-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-hardcover","title":"Building the Nation: Missed Opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHeather Selma Gregg\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuilding the Nation\u003c\/i\u003e draws from foreign-policy reports and interviews with U.S. military officers to investigate recent U.S.-led efforts to \"nation-build\" in Iraq and Afghanistan. Heather Selma Gregg argues that efforts to nation-build in both countries focused more on what should be called state-building, or how to establish a government, rule of law, security forces, and a viable economy. Considerably less attention was paid to what might \u003ci\u003etruly\u003c\/i\u003e be called nation-building--the process of developing a sense of shared identity, purpose, and destiny among a population within a state's borders and popular support for the state and its government. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e According to Gregg, efforts to stabilize states in the modern world require two key factors largely overlooked in Iraq and Afghanistan: popular involvement in the process of rebuilding the state that gives the population ownership of the process and its results and efforts to foster and strengthen national unity. Gregg offers a hypothetical look at how the United States and its allies could have used a population-centric approach to build viable states in Iraq and Afghanistan, focusing on initiatives that would have given the population buy-in and agency. Moving forward, Gregg proposes a six-step program for state and nation-building in the twenty-first century, stressing that these efforts are as much about \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e state-building is done as they are about specific goals or programs. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHeather Selma Gregg \u003c\/b\u003eis an associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School's Department of Defense Analysis. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Path to Salvation: Religious Violence from the Crusades to Jihad \u003c\/i\u003e(Potomac Books, 2014) and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Three Circles of War: Understanding the Dynamics of Modern War in Iraq\u003c\/i\u003e (Potomac Books, 2010). She has spent time in several regions of conflict, including Palestine\/the West Bank, Croatia, and Bosnia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.2 x 9.1 x 6.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770404765984,"sku":"9781640120877","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/0040856c5fbe7618d1a5fe6821fde2f7.webp?v=1780370994","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/building-the-nation-missed-opportunities-in-iraq-and-afghanistan-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}