The biggest problem with nation building and attempting to bootstrap new countries is that nobody seems to stick with it long enough. It seems like at least one full generation (20+ years) of support and management is required; certainly the halfway measures taken over the course of ten years in Afghanistan and Iraq were insufficient.
The biggest problem with nation building and attempting to bootstrap new countries is that nobody seems to stick with it long enough. It seems like at least one full generation (20+ years) of support and management is require
Classic colonialism “stuck with it” for much more than a full generation. And the poster children of “fixed” countries—post-WW2 Germany and Japan—certainly had less than 20+ years of outside management.
The biggest problem with nation building and attempting to bootstrap new countries is that nobody seems to stick with it long enough. It seems like at least one full generation (20+ years) of support and management is required; certainly the halfway measures taken over the course of ten years in Afghanistan and Iraq were insufficient.
Classic colonialism “stuck with it” for much more than a full generation. And the poster children of “fixed” countries—post-WW2 Germany and Japan—certainly had less than 20+ years of outside management.