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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reo Matsuzaki

Titel

THE AMERICAN WAY

Ist Teil von

• Statebuilding by Imposition, 2019, p.104

Ort / Verlag

Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Can America build strong and modern states in ungoverned and undergoverned spaces?¹ Evidence thus far—as observed from America’s occupation of the Philippines, its attempt to make South Vietnam into a viable state, and more recently, its endeavors to transform Iraq and Afghanistan into stable and prosperous democracies—suggests otherwise. There are indeed examples of the United States successfully imposing a modern democratic government under military occupation, most notably in post–World War II Germany and Japan, but they are the exceptions that reveal a more general pattern: America can contribute to rebuilding and democratizing an occupied state that, before