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In this webinar, diplomat Keith Mines discussed the subject of "Nation-Building" he expanded on his new book “Why Nation-Building Matters.” Mines is currently the director of the Latin America Program at the United States Institute of Peace. He was joined by Ambassador Patrick Duddy, Director of Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, a fellow of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program at Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) and a former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela.
Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In “Why Nation-Building Matters,” he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nation's global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projects - in Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq - inform Mines' in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail.
This webinar was organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program and co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Duke Center of International Development, and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy.
Learn more about DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
In this webinar, diplomat Keith Mines discussed the subject of "Nation-Building" he expanded on his new book “Why Nation-Building Matters.” Mines is currently the director of the Latin America Program at the United States Institute of Peace. He was joined by Ambassador Patrick Duddy, Director of Duke University’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, a fellow of the Rethinking Diplomacy Program at Duke Center for International and Global Studies (DUCIGS) and a former U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela.
Keith W. Mines has taken part in nation-building efforts as a Special Forces officer, diplomat, occupation administrator, and United Nations official. In “Why Nation-Building Matters,” he uses cases from his own career to argue that repairing failed states is a high-yield investment in our own nation's global future. Eyewitness accounts of eight projects - in Colombia, Grenada, El Salvador, Somalia, Haiti, Darfur, Afghanistan, and Iraq - inform Mines' in-depth analysis of how foreign interventions succeed and fail.
This webinar was organized by the DUCIGS/Rethinking Diplomacy Program and co-sponsored by the Duke Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Duke Center of International Development, and the Duke Program in American Grand Strategy.
Learn more about DUCIGS' Rethinking Diplomacy program: https://igs.duke.edu/series/rethinking-diplomacy
