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Informationen zum Autor Mark T Berger is Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (nps)! Monterey! CA. He is on leave from the International Studies Program and the Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies atthe University of New South Wales! Australia. He is the author of The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (2004); editor From Nation Building toState Building (2007) and co-author! with Heloise Weber! of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (2007! forthcoming).Douglas A Borer is Associate Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis and a member of the Center on Terrorism and Irregular Warfare at the NPS. His research has focused on the topic of political legitimacy and warfare! nation building! and strategic thought. He is the author of Superpowers Defeated: Vietnam and Afghanistan Compared (1999) and co-editor! with John Arquilla! of Information Strategy: A Guide to Theory and Practice (2007). Zusammenfassung This book examines the history of nation-building during the era of decolonization and the Cold War, and on recent post-9/11 pursuit of nation-building, in what have become known as ‘collapsed’, ‘collapsing’, ‘failed’ or ‘failing’ states. Using historical and contemporary examples, contributors explore themes of ‘successful’ and ‘unsuccessful’ nation-building. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The Long War: Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Collapsing States 2. From 'Shock and Awe' to 'Hearts and Minds': The Fall and Rise of US Counterinsurgency Capability in Iraq 3. From Collapsing States to Neo-Trusteeship: The Limits to Solving the Problem of 'Precarious Statehood' in the 21st Century 4. Engaging or Withdrawing, Winning or Losing? The Contradictions of Counterinsurgency Policy in Afghanistan and Iraq 5. The Battle for Iraq: Islamic Insurgencies in Comparative Perspective 6. Less is More: The Problematic Future of Irregular Warfare in an Era of Collapsing States 7. Things Come Together: Symbolic Violence and Guerrilla Mobilisation 8. Things Fall Apart: The Endgame Dynamics of Internal Wars 9. The End of War as we Knew it? Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Lessons from the Forgotten History of Early Terror Networks 10. The Misleading Problem of Failed States: A 'Socio-Geography' of Terrorism in the Post-9/11 Era 11. Caudillos and the Crisis of the Colombian State: Fragmented Sovereignty, the War System and the Privatisation of Counterinsurgency in Colombia 12. The Insurgency of Global Empire and the Counterinsurgency of Local Resistance: New World Order in an Era of Civilian Provisional Authority 13. The Last Empire? From Nation-Building Compulsion to Nation-Wrecking Futility and Beyond 14. All Roads Lead to and from Iraq: The Long War and the Transformation of the Nation-State System ...
