Title: Building Expeditionary Economics: Understanding the Field and Setting Forth a Research Agenda
Abstract: In the continuing debates over the future of the United States military, it has become common to note that the conflicts for which our armed forces are nominally prepared - large-scale, interstate wars on the order of World War II - actually constitute a fraction of the conflicts in which they have historically been engaged. Indeed, over the past century, the U.S. military has frequently found itself in the business of what is called, accurately or not, nation-building. This can occur subsequent to a conflict, as with the Marshall Plan or peacekeeping operations in the Balkans, or contemporaneously with fighting, as in the Philippines, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Less frequently, but of perhaps rising relevance, civilians and the military engage in efforts to prevent conflict. In each case, the importance of economic development to creating security and sustaining peace has been recognized. Yet the level of effort devoted to economic development and the quality of these efforts has been uneven, with some celebrated as great successes and others derided as wasteful and peripheral to American interests. In many ways, in fact, the United States has yet to develop a coherent or effective approach to economic development.
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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