Overcoming Obstacles to Peace Local Factors in Nation-Building

• Main Author: Dobbins, James (auth)
• Other Authors: Miller, Laurel E. (auth), Pezard, Stephanie (auth), Chivvis, Christopher S. (auth), Taylor, Julie E. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: RAND Corporation 2013
• Subjects: History of the Americas; European history; Asian history; Warfare & defence; History; Political Science
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Following on a series of RAND Corporation studies of nation-building, this monograph analyzes the impediments that local conditions pose to successful outcomes in these interventions. It examines how external actors and local leaders in a variety of societies modified or worked around those conditio...