Iraqi Nation-building in the Honors College
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Since the end of the Cold War, nationalist, ethnic, and civic conflicts have proliferated around the globe. Thus, the optimistic notion of the “End of History” has degenerated into a “Clash of Civilizations,” at least according to some prominent thinkers of international relations.1 The United States, the United Nations, and other international actors have been drawn into several of these conflicts, and, despite the protests in 2000 of candidate George W. Bush, peacekeeping and nation-building has assumed a prominent place in American foreign policy—in the Balkans, in Afghanistan, and, most obviously, in Iraq. The task of rebuilding Iraq and constructing a democracy there has been compared to past efforts to do the same in post-war Germany and Japan, and, without much exaggeration, it is safe to say that US involvement in Iraq represents the most substantial—and in important ways radical— commitment of US political, military, and economic power in several decades. The preceding constituted the motivation for HC 205,
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