Review – Understanding Libya Since Gaddafi
Ulf Laessing provides fresh insight into the situation in Libya following the collapse of the Gaddafi regime.
China’s Nation-Building Strategies and United Front Work for Tibetan Leadership
China must revisit its strategies and exploring alternative means will be necessary in order to successfully attain national integration and a multi-ethnic China.
Review – The Politics of Nation-Building
Harris Mylonas’ novel approach to nation-building not only pioneers a new theory in the well-trodden ethnopolitics field, but also integrates international relations with comparative politics.
Whither Nation-Building?
What drives a state’s choice to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude ethnic groups within its territory? An answer can be found by examining a state’s foreign policy goals and relations with external patrons of such groups.
WHERE HAVE ALL THE NATION BUILDERS GONE?
Six months ago the US military was being praised by many security specialists as finally having gotten it – understanding that its future was counter-insurgency best practices which means nation building under fire from insurgents in the world’s toughest neighborhoods. Yes, it had taken a while, but the military’s top leadership had finally seen the light.
