Conservatives often disagree about wars, but virtually no one likes nation-building. President Donald Trump has so far managed to avoid it in his military interventions. Trump would surely like to do ...

The United States may not be interested in nation building any longer, but nation building remains interested in it. Over the past 15 years, nation building became synonymous with the wars in Iraq and ...

Keith Mines speaks to students at the Kennedy Center about nation-building and its importance. Nation-building has become negatively viewed despite its importance over the years. (Dallin Wilks) The ...

Jeremi Suri shows that US nation-building is too deeply rooted to be impeded by the Iraq and Afghanistan debacles. Ten years ago, in 2003, President George W. Bush argued in a notorious speech that ...

Nation-building has gone out of style. The U.S. effort in Afghanistan has lasted a decade, and it's been nearly as long in Iraq. Now, there's little appetite in American political circles for ...

President Biden’s shoddy withdrawal from Afghanistan has irrevocably sullied America’s reputation. Even opponents of continued occupation have been horrified at the indefensible manner in which this ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Between February 2004 and December 2013, I spent six and a half years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor. One of the ...

What you need to know: In many countries, the first phase of nation-building looks slow, tedious, even underwhelming. It is about stabilising, holding together, and preventing reversal. It is messy.

Where America got Afghanistan wrong is “nation-building.” That’s a myth. Nations don’t build nations. Nations rebuild themselves. President Biden, predictably, learned the wrong lesson. The opposite ...

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida Shigeru and members of the Japanese envoy sign the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, which ended the post-war occupation of Japan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons Following ...