Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Kathleen Hicks, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "A New U.S. Focus on Nation-Building."
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Kathleen Hicks, a senior fellow with the CSIS International Security Program, was quoted by the Christian Science Monitor, "A New U.S. Focus on Nation-Building."
George W. Bush resisted calls to do nation-building during his 2000 campaign, but eight years later, his cabinet is making fundamental changes to reorganize the way the American government can prop up countries around the world.
As the US spends billions to build the military and governance capacity of Iraq and Afghanistan, the Bush administration finds it has no choice but to support such efforts in other emerging countries.
"I would argue that what it will do over time is just continue to emasculate the civilian agencies," says Kathleen Hicks, a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a think tank in Washington. "[The State Department] is never going to be able to compete with money and people, and if the mission goes, then you'll continue to rely on the military."
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