Jacqueline L. Hazelton
The Hearts-and-Minds Myth
How America Gets Counterinsurgency Wrong
Foreign Affairs, 2021
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America has failed in its attempts at nation building.
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America’s efforts to promote democracy through nation building have, for the most part, failed, writes professor Jacqueline L. Hazelton. Her timely essay relates how, in managing to quell insurgencies and achieve relative stability, Western powers have often had to strike Faustian bargains that furthered local elites’ interests at the expense of civil rights and the rule of law. Outcomes in Vietnam and Afghanistan bear out that, in future responses to “small wars in distant lands,” the United States would do well to adopt a less aggressive, more cautious approach.
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Jacqueline L. Hazelton is an assistant professor at the US Naval War College.
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