Nation-Building Beyond Afghanistan and Iraq (Forum on Constructive Capitalism) (PDF) (Print)

Bestselling author Francis Fukuyama brings together esteemed academics, political analysts, and practitioners to reflect on the US experience with nation-building, from its historical underpinnings to its modern-day consequences. The United States has sought on repeated occasions to reconstruct states damaged by conflict, from Reconstruction in the South after the Civil War to Japan and Germany after World War II, to the ongoing rebuilding of Iraq. Despite this rich experience, there has been remarkably little systematic effort to learn lessons on how outside powers can assist in the building of strong and self-sufficient states in post-conflict situations.