nation-building

But in recent years, the policy goal has shifted to the vaguer concept of "nation building" , or trying to create a peaceful country.

When I and a few others had lunch with him, he specifically said, "We're not going to do nation building. "

To his political strategists, worried about re-election, his message was that nation-building should start at home.

He might have warned that nation building is no picnic, either.

Mr. Obama has made clear that he has no enthusiasm for "nation building" projects in Afghanistan that go on for years or are unsustainable.

The topic that Mr Kagame had chosen to talk about was his favourite: "The Challenges of Nation-Building in Africa: The case of Rwanda" .

If the president is ready to take some big, hard, urgent, decisions, shouldn't they be first about nation-building in America, not in Libya?

To say that history is "idea driven" is to say that, like all cooperation, nation building requires a common basic vocabulary.

My plan is to strive for the early completion of credits, and then return at an early date for a force of nation-building.

Our 10-year occupation, and our off-and-on-again attempts at nation building, have been a disaster.

For the country's 45 million people, it is widely seen as an important step in nation building after years of oppression and inequality.

If nation-building is the only alternative, perhaps Mr Obama should be thinking instead about an exit strategy.

To the chagrin of old-school sceptics, nation-building is now an integral part of American strategy.

Because the Bush administration up to that point had specifically denounced nation building.

In his telling, early thoughts of nation-building were unrealistic, then during the Iraq war the allies took their eyes off Afghanistan.

Burmese official radio and television have said the prisoners are being released so they can participate in nation-building.

Mr. Ban says the rebuilding process in Haiti should be an exercise in nation-building on a scope and scale not seen in generations.

As an occupation force in Afghanistan and Iraq, the US became sucked into the nation-building that Mr Rumsfeld had long derided.

Of course he lost in Vietnam, where the nation-building dreams of a generation of cold war liberals came to grief.

Peace is not only the essence of the United Nations, it is an essential prerequisite for nation building.

China feels sincerely happy for the remarkable achievements made by Ethiopia in his nation-building endeavors.

It claims that Libya will generate enough income through its restored oil industry to pay for its own nation building.

"Britain is engaged in a mild form of nation-building, " says Mr Goodhart.

First the good news: America is actively participating in modern India's nation-building exercise on an unprecedented scale.

Petraeus: It was very clear early on that we, the military, were going to have to do the nation building.

And difficult wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have made Americans skeptical of nation building and promoting democracy.

Others have argued for a middle course involving a smaller troop increase and less nation-building.

Let the American's pay for fighting wars, deposing of dictators and nation building with their tax dollars and soldier citizen's.

NBN Co. , the main contractor for the project, has been touting it as "nation building infrastructure" .

We only do "nation building" to countries that have oil or space for a pipeline.

This used to work very well for him, and there are still many who will hail him as a prophet of development and nation-building.

The nation-building and development each and every country requires a peaceful and stable international and domestic environment.

The competing communist and Western nation-building strategies in North and South Vietnam ended with the latter's eventual defeat.

He has said freedom of the press sometimes must be subordinated to the needs of nation-building.

Professor Li, like Ambassador Wagidoso, also warned against external influence as a disruption of nation building in Africa.

thus "nation building" is taken to be self-evidently virtuous and worthy.

The tide of war is receding, says Mr Obama; now it is time for nation-building at home, "to reclaim the American dream" .

Americans are eager to cut their losses after a wretched decade and turn from nation-building abroad to nation-building at home.

The campaign has expanded its target group and its goals and has also assumed a new role in nation building.

Most of the other Vulcans fell somewhere in between support for and opposition to nation building or regime change.

Many literatures focuses on the political revolution and nation building under CCP' s leadership, but few on social design.

This inspires them to emulate his exemplary qualities of nation-building, patriotism and principled leadership.

Other new tasks for NATO, quite unimagined by its founders, were "liberal intervention" and "nation-building. "

Initial fighting gave way to nation building as the Regulars built schools and sewers, installed generators, and opened a hospital.

It conjures nightmares of failed states and offers remedies of nation-building and counter insurgency.

Europe and the U. N. should lead nation-building efforts.

The west has belatedly discovered the virtues of nation-building in Afghanistan, but there may be no real nation to build.

But fiscal and monetary frameworks were so rudimentary that they contributed little to nation-building.

Oops, corporations are not making money on space. . . but they make a lot on war and nation building.

It provided a basis for China's nation-building policy of "Concentrate Resources and Do Big Things. "

"America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home, " the president said.

Peninsula resorts in the tropical Pacific island nation building is give priority to.

For the smooth progress of nation-building and the people's livelihood improved water products have very important significance.

"America, it is time to focus on nation building at home, " the president said.

Iraq is a disaster, the surge a failure, and Bush's exercise in nation building a total washout.

In his gut Mr Obama may well care more about nation-building at home than he does about exercising superpower abroad.

The mindset is from the nation-building and Cold War period to produce . . .

As we turn the page on a decade of war, it's time to do some nation-building here at home.

The social revolution in nation-building started in the late Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), resulting in political independence and sovereignty.

But it is our time to get back to work on the only home we have, our time for nation-building in America.

When President Obama talked about Afghanistan in his Dec. 1 speech, he didn't advocate "nation building. "

Certainly we are doing elements of nation building [in Afghanistan].

And nation-building never gets a foothold here at home.

I think nation-building in America is going to be the issue.

Because after a hard decade of war, it is time for nation building here at home.

Security is necessary if foreign investment and nation-building are to proceed.

This is indeed a fundamental challenge in the process of nation building in a multi-ethnic society like Singapore.

We need nation-building at home, and we cannot wait another year to get started.

If nation-building cannot work in Bosnia, say his critics, then why waste more blood and treasure in Afghanistan?

My friends, you don't need to do nation building in Israel.

We are the ones in need of nation-building.

The lesson from Afghanistan is that the west lacks the stomach for nation-building.

We sincerely wish the people of South Sudan remarkable achievements under the leadership of President Kiir on their path of nation building.

America, it is time to focus on nation building here at home.

Indeed, in so many hot spots today, we have to do nation-building before we can do diplomacy.

A lot of work of nation-building needs more than a small number of people to complete.

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