Paul D. Miller
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780801451492
- eISBN:
- 9780801469541
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9780801451492.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Security Studies
Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns ...
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Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, and Lebanon—and the number of candidate nations for such campaigns in the future is substantial. Even with a broad definition of success, earlier campaigns failed more than half the time. This book looks at the question of what causes armed, international state-building campaigns by liberal powers to succeed or fail. The United States successfully rebuilt the West German and Japanese states after World War II but failed to build a functioning state in South Vietnam. After the Cold War the United Nations oversaw relatively successful campaigns to restore order, hold elections, and organize post-conflict reconstruction in Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, but those successes were overshadowed by catastrophes in Angola, Liberia, and Somalia. The recent effort in Iraq and the ongoing one in Afghanistan are yielding mixed results, despite the high levels of resources dedicated and the long duration of the missions there. The book outlines different types of state failure, analyzes various levels of intervention that liberal states have tried in the state-building process, and distinguishes among the various failures and successes those efforts have provoked.Less
Since 1898, the United States and the United Nations have deployed military force more than three dozen times in attempts to rebuild failed states. Currently there are more state-building campaigns in progress than at any time in the past century—including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Sudan, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire, and Lebanon—and the number of candidate nations for such campaigns in the future is substantial. Even with a broad definition of success, earlier campaigns failed more than half the time. This book looks at the question of what causes armed, international state-building campaigns by liberal powers to succeed or fail. The United States successfully rebuilt the West German and Japanese states after World War II but failed to build a functioning state in South Vietnam. After the Cold War the United Nations oversaw relatively successful campaigns to restore order, hold elections, and organize post-conflict reconstruction in Mozambique, Namibia, Nicaragua, and elsewhere, but those successes were overshadowed by catastrophes in Angola, Liberia, and Somalia. The recent effort in Iraq and the ongoing one in Afghanistan are yielding mixed results, despite the high levels of resources dedicated and the long duration of the missions there. The book outlines different types of state failure, analyzes various levels of intervention that liberal states have tried in the state-building process, and distinguishes among the various failures and successes those efforts have provoked.
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226111728
- eISBN:
- 9780226111780
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226111780.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
This chapter discusses the model of the reasoning mind. Hunting was a favorite pastime among the Exner men. It was also a favorite diversion of Crown Prince Rudolph, Adolf Exner's former pupil. As an ...
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This chapter discusses the model of the reasoning mind. Hunting was a favorite pastime among the Exner men. It was also a favorite diversion of Crown Prince Rudolph, Adolf Exner's former pupil. As an exercise in the masculine virtues of liberal individualism, hunting served the Exners as one defense against “the herd existence.” Sigmund Exner's neurological research in the 1880s depended literally as well as symbolically on liberal power in Austria. The hunter provided the patterns for Sigmund's self-fashioning as a scientist and for his standard of liberal rationality. His study of cerebral localization led him to a great mystery of neuropathology. Exner's theory of visual memory naturalized a model of reason characteristic of Austrian science and liberalism. The culture of the summer retreat provided the Exners with embodied ideals of liberal morality and reason.Less
This chapter discusses the model of the reasoning mind. Hunting was a favorite pastime among the Exner men. It was also a favorite diversion of Crown Prince Rudolph, Adolf Exner's former pupil. As an exercise in the masculine virtues of liberal individualism, hunting served the Exners as one defense against “the herd existence.” Sigmund Exner's neurological research in the 1880s depended literally as well as symbolically on liberal power in Austria. The hunter provided the patterns for Sigmund's self-fashioning as a scientist and for his standard of liberal rationality. His study of cerebral localization led him to a great mystery of neuropathology. Exner's theory of visual memory naturalized a model of reason characteristic of Austrian science and liberalism. The culture of the summer retreat provided the Exners with embodied ideals of liberal morality and reason.
