The personal experiences of Tanoto Foundation founder and successful entrepreneur, Sukanto Tanoto, have helped shaped the Foundation’s philanthropic approach. The combination of the challenges faced ...

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 ...

Fact-Checking Trump’s Claim That Venezuela Stole Oil and Land from the U.S. The Arsenal of Democracy Can’t Be Backordered Trump’s China Chip Deal and the Sale of American National Security From ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Between February 2004 and December 2013, I spent six and a half years in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor. One of the initiatives I worked on was at Camp Julien, a Canadian Forces base in Kabul ...

Today, the expression "nation-building" is associated with ill-advised imperial misadventures like the Iraq War. But it's actually an incredibly important — and worthy — idea. It's essentially based ...

When asked about his plans for postwar Germany, Winston Churchill frequently cited an old recipe for jugged hare: "First, catch your hare." Winning the war was the most important task; once caught, ...

America’s longest war continues. The U.S. military has been fighting in Central Asia for more than 15 years. To what end? Perpetuate a corrupt, incompetent, and unpopular central government in Kabul ...