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2006.
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| Summary/Abstract |
A wide range of efforts has been offered on 'winning the peace' in Iraq. This article examines the judgements of several comparative studies on post-conflict nation-building, and it introduces 1990s Russia as an additional source of 'lessons learned'. Beyond the widely recommended attention to the large and small technical tasks in the areas of security, democracy, administrative capacity, and economic reconstruction, this paper points to the importance of dynamics such as a real and lasting commitment by the United States and the coalition, the emergence of widely supported and particularly talented Iraqi leadership, and increased evidence of 'learning' among Iraqi elites and masses and among the coalition and international community.
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