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The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building

Interview with James Dobbins

In this video interview, James Dobbins discusses The Beginner's Guide to Nation-Building, a comprehensive, step-by-step guide for successful post-conflict stabilization and reconstruction. Topics include:

Main lessons from the study that can be applied to future nation-building missions.
The utility of the guide across real-life scenarios.
The organization of the guide by instruments rather than situations.

This video is available as a progressive download in Flash format:

Download the video interview (Flash - 23MB)