Europe's Role In Nation-building: From The Balkans To The Congo

摘要

This book, sponsored by the RAND Corporation and led by James Dobbins-a renowned peacekeeping and post-conflict reconstruction expert-is the third in a series of monographs addressing nation-building. Whereas the first two volumes focused on U.S. and the UN-led nation building experiences, Dobbins and his co-authors investigate "Europe's role in nation-building." The thesis of the book is "to determine how successful European powers are at achieving the objective of transforming a society emerging from conflict into one at peace with itself and its neighbors." In doing so, the authors take an in-depth look at six post-Cold War European Union (EU)-led nation-building operations: Macedonia, Bosnia, Cote d'lvoire, Albania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone; by systematically analyzing, then comparing and contrasting these experiences.