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Peace works : America's peacebuilding role in a turbulent world / Frederick D. Barton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Barton, Frederick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Military policy.
- Peace-building.
- Peace-building--United States--Case studies.
- Peace-building--United States.
- United States--Military policy.
- United States.
- United States--Military policy--Case studies.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (313 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2018.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2018]
- Summary:
- Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria - a quarter-century of stumbles in America's pursuit of a more peaceful and just world.American military interventions have cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, yet we rarely manage to enact positive and sustainable change.
- Contents:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Matching threats and resolve
- Is the world going to hell?
- Why should we act and when?
- A new hope in the 90's
- Bosnia : first lessons
- Rwanda : open wounds
- Haiti : from exploitation to participation
- The crucible of the new century
- Iraq : the enormity of the task
- Afghanistan : measuring progress
- Current and future challenges
- Syria : what matters most?
- What might we see in the years ahead
- A better tomorrow
- Fulfilling our leadership potential
- Expanding America's peaceful core
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the author.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-42041-5
- 1-5381-1301-5
- OCLC:
- 1037807073
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