The United States may not be interested in nation building any longer, but nation building remains interested in it. Over the past 15 years, nation building became synonymous with the wars in Iraq and ...

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In October 2000, presidential candidate George W. Bush famously derided the concept of nation building and the suggestion that the U.S. military should take the lead in building up failed states.

EVERY thirty years or so, Guyana’s Independence and the Muslim holiday of Eid-ul-Adha align, though never perfectly. This year marks the first time in our ...

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President Biden’s shoddy withdrawal from Afghanistan has irrevocably sullied America’s reputation. Even opponents of continued occupation have been horrified at the indefensible manner in which this ...

Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru and members of the Japanese envoy sign the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, which ended the post-war occupation of Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Following ...