books about: nation-building     books:     Nation-building      Making War and Building Peace: United Nations Peace Operations Michael W. Doyle, Nicholas Sambanis Princeton University Press, 2006 Excellent Overview of the UN's Attempts at Peace Operations Professors Michael Doyle and Nick Sambanis have 'tag-teamed' to present an excellent reference work on the UN's attempts at Peace operations. Earlier works have set the scene in an introductory fashion, however this book examines in methodical detail why certain UN ...             After the Taliban: Nation-Building in Afghanistan Amb. James F. Dobbins Potomac Books Inc., 2008 A "must read" for BEFORE 2008 ELECTION "After the Taliban: Nation Building in Afghanistan" is only 179 pages, but it is the most informative foreign relations book that I have ever read. Although it isn't the easiest book to read (I plan to read it again to get it set in my mind), it shows clearly that TRUE ...             Rediscovering God in America: Reflections on the Role of Faith in Our Nation's History Newt Gingrich Thomas Nelson, 2006 Must hear for every American This is a good walking tour of our heritage that every American, and want to be American should listen to. Our history and what our founding fathers said and set up is important to the decisions we make today.             Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream Andres Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, ... North Point Press, 2001 A concise outline of how to create development to combat sprawl The authors do an excellent job of both outlining ways to develop that do not induce sprawl, promote neighborhoods, and encourage people to both create and live in places that are the antithesis of sprawl. I appreciated their anecdotes and stories about things that ...             Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and ... Ahmed Rashid Viking Adult, 2008 Author has excellent access...read this after Ghost Wars I am headed over to Kabul in a couple weeks to work in NATO's security assistance force. I have been reading a ton about the region over the past several months. Ghost Wars stands alone as the best read out there, but its narrative ends abruptly on Sept 10, 2001. For ...             The Prince of the Marshes: And Other Occupational Hazards of a Year in Iraq Rory Stewart Harvest Books, 2007 True story from inside Iraq by someone with no axe to grind and no agenda I cannot recommend Mr. Stewart's book highly enough. He was deputy governor of a region in Iraq for a year, starting late 2003. A British national with a great deal of experience in Asia and the Middle East (he walked across Afghanistan in 2002, and recounted the ...             The Rise of Global Civil Society: Building Communities and Nations from the Bottom Up Don Eberly Encounter Books, 2008 Superb Overview, A Bright Light Into the Future I would normally penalize the publisher one star for being lazy about providing basic information using Amazon's excellent digital loading dock. Here's the part the publisher should have provided: Foreword: Poverty Reduction in the Age of Globalization 01 ...             Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage of a Nation Ronald G. Knapp, Jonathan Spence, ... Tuttle Publishing, 2006 A strong in-depth history of Chinese home architecture China has seen many social, political and economic changes over the centuries, yet surprisingly, has managed to preserve excellent examples of changing architectural home styles throughout these years, as Chinese Houses: The Architectural Heritage Of A Nation presents. ...             Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World Samantha Power Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 Samantha Power at her best. Samantha Power at her best. I hope for the world's sake she's back in office when Obama wins the election. She understands what issues need to be brought to light, which people need to be recognized and which situations and failures need to be analyzed and learned ...             The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C. David Ovason Harper Paperbacks, 2002 Virgoville Overall its an informative book well worth reading so I give it 5 stars. He rehashes the virgo thing to death throughout the book where I felt he could have laid that out better in 1 or 2 chapters.Also as mentioned by others below he left alot of Masonic stuff out.I ...             America's Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq James Dobbins RAND Corporation, 2005 Good Background on Democratic Nation-Building This is one of the portfolio of books exploring what it takes to create successful democratic nation-building--From German to Iraq (as the subtitle notes). It is also one of the better volumes among such works. The RAND report goes into considerable detail, ...             The Blood of Government: Race, Empire, the United States, and the Philippines Paul A. Kramer The University of North Carolina Press, 2006 In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperial conquest against the Philippine Republic. Over the next five decades, U.S. imperialists justified their colonial empire by crafting novel racial ideologies adapted to new realities of collaboration ...             American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East since 1945 Douglas Little The University of North Carolina Press, 2008 very readable history of U.S. involvement in the mid-east I discovered this book when a chapter from it appeared in a collection of readings for a college class on national security. The chapter, "America and Israel: the making of a special relationship" impressed me with its account of the events involving the two countries ...             The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan: Architecture and the Art of the Nation Alice Y. Tseng University of Washington Press, 2008 It was not until Japan's opening to the West during the Meiji period (1868-1912) that terms for "art (bijutsu) and "art museum" (bijutsukan) were coined. "The Imperial Museums of Meiji Japan" documents Japan's unification of national art and cultural resources to forge a modern identity influenced by European museum and exhibition culture.Japan's ...             The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building James Dobbins RAND Corporation, 2007 This guidebook is designed as a contribution to future nation-building efforts. It is organized around the components that make up any nation-building mission: planning, military and police contingents, civil administrators, humanitarian and relief efforts, governance, economic stabilization, democratization, and infrastructure development. 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