nation-building
Noun
Meaning
nation-building (uncountable)
(political science) Unifying the people or peoples within a state so that it remains politically stable and viable in the long run.
Alternative names
nation building
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Fiction is a very powerful tool for teaching history. The Philippines was the first Iraq, the first Vietnam, the first Afghanistan, in the sense that it was the United States initial or baptismal experience in nation-building.
If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road.
The sin of liberal thinking was to overlook socialism's nation-building strengths, thereby allowing its energies to go in anti-national directions. The sin of Marxism was to degrade socialism into a question of wages and the stomach, putting it in conflict with the state and its national existence.
In time it will become clear to everyone that support for the policies of pre-emptive war and interventionist nation-building will have much greater significance than the removal of Saddam Hussein itself.
There are a growing number of conservatives and Republicans who, while they support the president and support the war in Iraq, wonder how many of these nation-building wars we're going to engage in and what the parameters of that are.
In general, Americans are not very good at nation-building and not very good colonialists.