During the presidential campaign, George W. Bush made his opposition to "nation building" well known. NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says now, facing the prospect of Afghanistan's Taliban ...

This publication is now archived. What’s the U.N. record on nation-building? Mixed, experts say. While the United Nations has guided several countries through successful postwar transitions, the ...

Three decades of international interventionism have failed to guide Bosnia and Herzegovina toward sectarian harmony and democracy.

The other component of “nation building,” especially in these patriotic times, should be building pride, not just physical stuff.

The Shinnecock Indian Nation acquired land in Hampton Bays, marking its first private purchase in 400 years.

The new merch looks good, too. New uniforms, a new building, and a new logo are all here for the Clippers. Is a championship on the way, too? For once, this franchise is actually trending up.

Why Afghan nation-building was always destined to fail The Taliban returning to power opens a new, but also rather inevitable, chapter in a turbulent history for Afghanistan since the 1979 Soviet ...

The Senate passed Prime Minister Mark Carney's landmark 'nation-building' projects bill unamended Thursday, giving the federal government extraordinary new powers to fast-track initiatives that ...

But counterinsurgency in Afghanistan wasn’t just any kind of nation-building; it was re-building a state that had been successively dismantled for decades while also fighting an existential ...

Shadow Government 2009-2017 Bush on Nation Building and Afghanistan President Bush famously campaigned against nation building in 2000.

James F. Dobbins testifying about Afghanistan before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in 2013. He was widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on nation building. Getty Images ...

A western New York school district can keep its Native American-themed logo following approval from the Seneca Nation of Indians.