Author: Archie Vernon HuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
[This text discusses] South Carolina's role in the building of the United States. -- A word to the student.
The History of South Carolina
Author: Archie Vernon HuffPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
[This text discusses] South Carolina's role in the building of the United States. -- A word to the student.
To Build as Well as Destroy
Author: Andrew J. GawthorpePublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501712098
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
For years, the so-called better-war school of thought has argued that the United States built a legitimate and viable non-Communist state in South Vietnam in the latter years of the Vietnam War and that it was only the military abandonment of this state that brought down the Republic of Vietnam. But Andrew J. Gawthorpe, through a detailed and incisive analysis, shows that, in fact, the United States failed in its efforts at nation building and had not established a durable state in South Vietnam. Drawing on newly opened archival collections and previously unexamined oral histories with dozens of U.S. military officers and government officials, To Build as Well as Destroy demonstrates that the United States never came close to achieving victory in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Gawthorpe tells a story of policy aspirations and practical failures that stretches from Washington, D.C., to the Vietnamese villages in which the United States implemented its nationbuilding strategy through the Office of Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support known as CORDS. Structural factors that could not have been overcome by the further application of military power thwarted U.S. efforts to build a viable set of non-Communist political, economic, and social institutions in South Vietnam. To Build as Well as Destroy provides the most comprehensive account yet of the largest and best-resourced nation-building program in U.S. history. Gawthorpe's analysis helps contemporary policy makers, diplomats, and military officers understand the reasons for this failure. At a moment in time when American strategists are grappling with military and political challenges in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, revisiting the historical lessons of Vietnam is a worthy endeavor.
The South in the Building of the Nation
Author: Mims, EdwinPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809420
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
The South in the Building of the Nation
Author: Henneman, John BellPublisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809444
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
The South, the Nation, and the World
Author: David Lee CarltonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813921853
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
In this collection of essays, the authors argue that the chronic economic difficulties of the American South cannot be explained away as resulting from a distinctive 'premodern' business climate, since there was little variation between regional business climates during the Antebellum period.
Nation Building in South Korea
Author: Gregg BrazinskyPublisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458723178
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Brazinsky explains why South Korea was one of the few postcolonial nations that achieved rapid economic development and democratization by the end of the twentieth century. He contends that a distinctive combination of American initiatives and Korean agency enabled South Korea's stunning transformation. Expanding the framework of traditional diplomatic history, Brazinsky examines not only state-to-state relations, but also the social and cultural interactions between Americans and South Koreans. He shows how Koreans adapted, resisted, and transformed American influence and promoted socioeconomic change that suited their own aspirations. Ultimately, Brazinsky argues, Koreans' capacity to tailor American institutions and ideas to their own purposes was the most important factor in the making of a democratic South Korea.
From Nation-Building to State-Building
Author: Mark T. BergerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317997239
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on the more recent post-Cold War and post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building in what have become known as ‘collapsed’ or ‘failed’ states. In the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era nation-building, or what is increasingly termed state-building, has taken on renewed salience, making it more important than ever to set the idea and practice of nation-building in historical perspective. Focusing on both historical and contemporary examples, the contributors explore a number of important themes that relate to ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ nation-building efforts from South Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s to East Timor, Afghanistan and Iraq in the twenty-first century. From Nation-Building to State-Building was previously published as a special issue of Third World Quarterly and will be of interest to students and scholars of comparative politics and peace studies.
The South in the Building of the Nation
Author: Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781589809468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
The South in the Building of the Nation: Southern biography, ed. by W. L. Fleming
Author: Julian Alvin Carroll ChandlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Why Nation-Building Matters
Author: Keith W. MinesPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1640122826
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
Why Nation-Building Matters establishes a framework for building security forces, economic development, and political consolidation that blends soft and hard power into a deployable and effective package.