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• Title: Armed Humanitarians
• Author : Nathan Hodge
• Release Date : January 15, 2011
• Genre: World Affairs,Books,Politics & Current Events,Political Science,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 7225 KB

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In May 2003, President George W. Bush declared victory in Iraq. But

while we won the war, we catastrophically lost the peace. Our failure

prompted a fundamental change in our foreign policy. Confronted with the

shortcomings of "shock and awe," the U.S. military shifted its focus to

"stability operations": counterinsurgency and the rebuilding of failed

states. In less than a decade, foreign assistance has become

militarized; humanitarianism has been armed.Combining recent history and firsthand reporting, Armed Humanitarians

traces how the concepts of nation-building came into vogue, and how,

evangelized through think tanks, government seminars, and the press,

this new doctrine took root inside the Pentagon and the State

Department. Following this extraordinary experiment in armed social work

as it plays out from Afghanistan and Iraq to Africa and Haiti, Nathan

Hodge exposes the difficulties of translating these ambitious new

theories into action.

Ultimately seeing this new era in foreign

relations as a noble but flawed experiment, he shows how armed

humanitarianism strains our resources, deepens our reliance on

outsourcing and private contractors, and leads to perceptions of a new

imperialism, arguably a major factor in any number of new conflicts

around the world. As we attempt to build nations, we may in fact be

weakening our own.

Nathan Hodge is a Washington, D.C.-based writer

who specializes in defense and national security. He has reported from

Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Russia, and a number of other countries in the

Middle East and former Soviet Union. He is the author, with Sharon

Weinberger, of A Nuclear Family Vacation, and his work has appeared in Slate, the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, and many other newspapers and magazines.

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