America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq James Dobbins, John G. McGinn, Keith Crane, Seth G. Jones and others
"Jim Dobbins and his team have produced a marvelous 'how to' manual for postconflict stabilization and reconstruction. I have kept a copy handy for ready consultation since my arrival to Baghdad and recommend it to anyone who wishes to understand or engage in such activities" Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, Presidential Envoy to Iraq America's Role in Nation-Building: from Germany to Iraq reviews more than 50 years of U.S. efforts to transform defeated enemies into democratic and prosperous allies. The authors draw lessons from America's
experience in rebuilding Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Afghanistan in order to extract best practices in nation-building and to suggest how these lessons might be applied in current and future endeavors, particularly the reconstruction of Iraq.