Fool's Errands: America's Recent Encounters with Nation BuildingThe book cuts through the excuses and uncovers the causes of Washington's pattern of failure. |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accessed August 15 accessed July Agence France Presse Aideed Aideed's Albright American April Aristide Associated Press attacks Balkans BBC Worldwide BBC Worldwide Monitoring Belgrade bombing Bosnia builders Carlos Westendorp civilian claimed Clinton administration corruption Croats Dayton Agreement December democracy democratic Duvalier economic effort elections ethnic Albanians Europe example February force foreign policy former KLA Haiti Haitian High Representative human rights humanitarian intervention Institute International Crisis Group June Keith Richburg KFOR killed Kosovo Liberation Army Kouchner leaders Madeleine March million mission Mogadishu multiethnic Muslim Muslim-Croat nation building nationalist NATO NATO's November October officials operation Organization party peace peacekeepers percent political President Pristina Quoted in ibid rebuild refugees Republika Srpska Reuters Sarajevo Secretary September Serbian Serbs soldiers Somalia spokesperson Thaçi tion U.S. Army U.S. military U.S. troops United Nations UNMIK UNOSOM UNOSOM II violence warlords Washington Post weapons Western World York Yugoslavia
Popular passages
Page 6 - We are clearly witnessing what is probably an irresistible shift in public attitudes toward the belief that the defense of the oppressed in the name of morality should prevail over frontiers and legal documents.
Page 6 - Defining Away Sovereignty In June 1999, shortly after NATO ended its bombing campaign against Yugoslavia, CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer asked President Clinton if the Kosovo war amounted to a new US foreign policy doctrine. Clinton responded affirmatively. "Whether within or beyond the borders of a country, if the world community has the power to stop it, we ought to stop genocide and ethnic cleansing,
Page 1 - He understood that our own security is shaped by the character of foreign regimes. Indeed, most presidents who followed, Republicans and Democrats alike, understood we must promote democracy and market economics in the world— because it protects our interests and security and because it reflects values that are both American and universal.
Page 8 - for instance, declared during the Kosovo war, "We are fighting not for territory but for values, for a new internationalism where the brutal repression of whole ethnic groups will no longer be tolerated.