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- noun
unifying thepeople orpeoples within astate so that it remainspolitically stable andviable in the long run
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No one in the Obama administration uses the phrase "nation-building," but that is, of course, precisely what they are trying to do - or some lesser version of it.
NYT > Home Page By DEXTER FILKINS 2011
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5. During the cold war, the term nation-building was primarily used by the leaders in the developing world to describe their task of building independent nations out of those emerging from colonialism.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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5. During the cold war, the term nation-building was primarily used by the leaders in the developing world to describe their task of building independent nations out of those emerging from colonialism.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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Speaking January 5 alongside his Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the president announced a shift in strategy for the American military, one that emphasizes aerial campaigns and proxy wars as opposed to "long-term nation-building with large military footprints."
Medea Benjamin: Obama's Pentagon Strategy: A Leaner, More Efficient Empire Medea Benjamin 2012
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Is the "end of long term nation-building" really the best today's policy planners can do?
News 2012
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The objective is not to engage in what some call nation-building.
How Wars end Gideon Rose 2010
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On October 11, four days after the operation began, Bush told a press conference, “It would be a useful function for the United Nations to take over the so-called nation-building,” an activity Bush had disparaged during the campaign.
The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008
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And I think that defense is the key word as opposed to what I would describe as nation-building.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Robert Naiman 2011
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The challenge ranges from leaden bureaucratic language full of arrimages and conciliation travail-famille to the Parti Québécois's propensity for rosy labels the nation-building business of sovereignty is a projet de société; Bernard Landry's attempt to revive his party program was the Saison des idées.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed TU THANH HA 2011
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Suri's book says that the idea of nation-building may encounter periods of retrenchment, but it always makes a comeback.
News 2011
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