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Dilemmas of intervention : social science for stabilization and reconstruction / edited by Paul K. Davis ; contributors, Claude Berrebi ... [et al.].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nation-building.
- Peace-building.
- Postwar reconstruction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Governments intervening in post-conflict states find themselves beset with numerous challenges and profound dilemmas: It is often unclear how best to proceed because measures that may improve conditions in one respect may undermine them in another. This volume reviews and integrates the scholarly social-science literature relevant to stabilization and reconstruction, with the goal of informing strategic planning at the whole-of-government level.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Objectives and scope
- Approach
- Establishing favorable security conditions
- An integrating conceptual model
- Measuring the constructs of the security model
- Establishing favorable political conditions
- General observations
- Political dilemmas
- Establishing favorable social conditions
- Initial observations
- Prescriptions for trust-building
- Establishing favorable economic conditions
- Why post-conflict economics is different
- Economic practices for the post-conflict situation
- Special issues of foreign aid
- Analytic observations
- Conclusions and suggestions for future research.
- Notes:
- "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-59735-7
- 9786613909800
- 0-8330-5257-8
- OCLC:
- 854968261
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