Dilemmas of intervention : social science for stabilization and reconstruction / edited by Paul K. Davis.
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 so...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND,
2011.
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| Series: | Rand Corporation monograph series.
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| 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 (S & R), with the goal of informing strategic planning at the whole-of-government level. The authors assert that S & R success depends on success in each of four component domains -- political, social, security, and economic. The authors discuss each domain separately but emphasize their interactions and the idea that the failure of any component can doom S & R as a whole. The authors also focus on a number of dilemmas that intervenors in post-conflict states face -- such as between short- and long-term goals and whether to work through or around the state's central government -- and suggest how these dilemmas can be confronted depending on context. |
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| Item Description: | "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense.". "National Defense Research Institute.". |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xlix, 332 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0833052497 9780833052490 |