Nation-building: beyond Afghanistan and Iraq, edited by Francis Fukuyama, is a collection of papers from a conference sponsored by Johns Hopkins University in April 2004. It looks at the history of U. S. efforts in this area, and tries to identify mistakes and lessons learned. It can be argued that some of our blunders in nation-building can be traced to Civil War reconstrutction efforts. It is also interesting to look at the analyses of our efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq with the benefit of two years worth of hindsight since these papers were presented.
(Vairo Library JZ6300.N38 2006)