Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues (Praeger Security International) - Hardcover

Watson, Cynthia A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0313353247 ISBN 13: 9780313353246

Publisher: Praeger, 2012

Synopsis

This book examines how the United States's extensive nation-building and stability operations will continue to evolve in the 21st century in the face of ever-growing budgetary concerns and constraints.

Stability, Security, Reconstruction, and Transition Operations: A Guide to the Issues puts the people, places, and events crucial to nation-building and security operations through U.S. experiences under the microscope.

This book focuses on the period after the Cold War, when U.S. operations proliferated, but also outlines the development of U.S. strategic decisions on nation-building and stability operations in a chronological fashion, providing documentation of these actions throughout American history. Original documents are provided and referenced to clarify concepts. With the increased attention on recent events in Iraq, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Libya, the United States's actions and policies of nation-building are now a key public policy discussion topic, and an understanding of these topics is critical for students, scholars, and general readers alike.

About this title

About the Author

Cynthia A. Watson, Ph.D., is professor of strategy and chairwoman of the Department of Security Studies at the National War College in Washington, D.C. Her published works include ABC-CLIO's Nation-Building: A Reference Handbook and U.S. Military Service: A Reference Handbook, as well as the first edition of U.S. National Security: A Reference Handbook, which was awarded Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE magazine in 2003.

Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0313353247
• ISBN 13: 9780313353246
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400