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Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do about It

Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do about It

Phillips, Rufus C.
H. R. McMaster

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Civil-Military Relations

General Political ScienceInternational Relations

ISBN10: 0700633049
ISBN13: 9780700633043
Publisher: Univ Pr Of Kansas
Published: Jun 10 2022
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.38 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
Stabilizing Fragile States: Why It Matters and What to Do About It is a masterclass on intervening to help fragile states stabilize in the face of internal challenges that threaten national security and how the United States can do better at less cost with improved chances of success. Written from the point of view of an on-the-ground practitioner after exceptional government and voluntary service abroad, Rufus C. Phillips III uses his experience to explain why US efforts to help fragile countries stabilize is important to national security.

Helping stabilize fragile states has been too much of a poorly informed, impersonal, technocratic, and conflicted process that has been dominated by reactions to events and missing a more human approach tailored to various countries' circumstances. In his book, Phillips explains why we have not been more successful and what it would take to make our stabilization efforts effective, sustainable, and less expensive.

Recent US involvements have ranged in intensity and size from Colombia, which did not put US boots on the ground, to massive interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, which did. The lack of success in Afghanistan and Iraq has tended to dominate the national conversation about dealing with fragile states. Stabilizing Fragile States provides a thorough analysis of what has gone wrong and what has gone right in US involvement.

- Stabilizing fragile states is more of an unconventional political and psychological endeavor requiring an operational mindset rather than conventional war or normal diplomacy.

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