Dilemmas of intervention [electronic resource] : social science for stabilization and reconstruction / edited by Paul K. Davis.

Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Publication details: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2011Description: xlix, 332 pSubject(s): Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction / Paul K. Davis -- Establishing security / Christopher S. Chivvis and Paul K. Davis -- Establishing favorable political conditions / Julie E. Taylor -- Political dilemmas of stabilization and reconstruction / Stephen Watts -- Establishing social conditions of trust and cooperation / Elizabeth Wilke, Paul K. Davis, and Christopher S. Chivvis -- Dilemmas of foreign aid in post-conflict areas / Claude Berrebi and Veronique Thelen -- Final observations / Paul K. Davis.
Summary: Governments intervening in post-conflict states find themselves beset with numerous challenges and profound dilemmas: it is often unclear how best to proceed because measures that may improve conditions in one respect may undermine them in another. This volume reviews and integrates the scholarly social-science literature relevant to stabilization and reconstruction (S&R), with the goal of informing strategic planning at the whole-of-government level. The authors assert that S&R success depends on success in each of four component domains -- political, social, security, and economic. The authors discuss each domain separately but emphasize their interactions and the idea that the failure of any component can doom S&R as a whole. The authors also focus on a number of dilemmas that intervenors in post-conflict states face -- such as between short- and long-term goals and whether to work through or around the state's central government -- and suggest how these dilemmas can be confronted depending on context.
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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

"National Defense Research Institute."

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Paul K. Davis -- Establishing security / Christopher S. Chivvis and Paul K. Davis -- Establishing favorable political conditions / Julie E. Taylor -- Political dilemmas of stabilization and reconstruction / Stephen Watts -- Establishing social conditions of trust and cooperation / Elizabeth Wilke, Paul K. Davis, and Christopher S. Chivvis -- Dilemmas of foreign aid in post-conflict areas / Claude Berrebi and Veronique Thelen -- Final observations / Paul K. Davis.

Governments intervening in post-conflict states find themselves beset with numerous challenges and profound dilemmas: it is often unclear how best to proceed because measures that may improve conditions in one respect may undermine them in another. This volume reviews and integrates the scholarly social-science literature relevant to stabilization and reconstruction (S&R), with the goal of informing strategic planning at the whole-of-government level. The authors assert that S&R success depends on success in each of four component domains -- political, social, security, and economic. The authors discuss each domain separately but emphasize their interactions and the idea that the failure of any component can doom S&R as a whole. The authors also focus on a number of dilemmas that intervenors in post-conflict states face -- such as between short- and long-term goals and whether to work through or around the state's central government -- and suggest how these dilemmas can be confronted depending on context.

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