The United States may not be interested in nation building any longer, but nation building remains interested in it. Over the past 15 years, nation building became synonymous with the wars in Iraq and ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru and members of the Japanese envoy sign the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, which ended the post-war occupation of Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Following ...

Nation-building has gone out of style. The U.S. effort in Afghanistan has lasted a decade, and it's been nearly as long in Iraq. Now, there's little appetite in American political circles for ...

When asked about his plans for postwar Germany, Winston Churchill frequently cited an old recipe for jugged hare: "First, catch your hare." Winning the war was the most important task; once caught, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Jeremi Suri shows that US nation-building is too deeply rooted to be impeded by the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. Ten years ago, in 2003, President George W. Bush argued in a notorious speech that ...

Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite ...

The US domestic political focus on Iraq has often come at the expense of attention to developments in the Afghan-Pakistan conflict. This situation is compounded by the lack of meaningful official ...

Editor’s Note: Keith Magee is a theologian, political adviser and social justice scholar. He is chair and professor of practice in social justice at Newcastle University (United Kingdom) and senior ...

In October 2000, presidential candidate George W. Bush famously derided the concept of nation building and the suggestion that the U.S. military should take the lead in building up failed states.

“We went there for two reasons, George. Two reasons. One, to get Bin Laden, and two, to wipe out as best we could, and we did, the al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. We did it. Then what happened? Began to ...