Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/93715 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2013/108
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Since 2001 international attention has focused on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and specifically on the question of whether external intervention can assist weak or fragile states in successfully making the transition to stable democracies. Despite their differences, Iraq and Afghanistan are often considered together in analyses of state-building, and multiple observers have explored the lessons of one for the other. Yet Iraq and Afghanistan are not the first cases of US military intervention and occupation for the purposes of transforming a foreign regime. This paper provides a review and critique of the literature on why some of these interventions were more successful than others in building robust and effective state institutions.
Subjects: 
military intervention
state-building
democracy promotion
JEL: 
F51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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