“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself ”
(Franklin Delano Roosevelt, March 4, 1933)
BY Omar Kalinge
The first challenge is in the definition. There is no agreed definition of nation-building. A 2003 study by James Dobbins and others for the RAND Corporation defines nation-building as “the use of armed force in the aftermath of a conflict to underpin an enduring transition to democracy.”