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1 From Exhausted-Colonialism to Exhausted-Internationalism? The Geo-Politics of Nation-Building and the Changing Global Order (Unpublished draft: International Studies Association Annual Conference Montreal Canada March 17- March 20 2004). Mark T. Berger Against the backdrop of unparalleled U.S. global power in the post-Cold War and post-9/11 era “nation- building” has taken on renewed salience.1 Nevertheless the long shadow of the Vietnam War which was among other things an extended and failed nation-building effort by Washington to turn South Vietnam into
history of the South Vietnamese trajectory and the Iraqi trajectory in the context of a critical and qualitative examination of the overall history of the universalization of the nation-state system in the twentieth century it becomes clear that the prospects for “successful” U.S.-led nation-building in the Middle East (as well as elsewhere) are very limited. By shifting the focus from the quantitative approach which either ignores the wider historical context or assumes that the right set of nation-building strategies