Download or read book Europe's Role in Nation-building written by James Dobbins and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Union and its member nations have proven adept at mounting small-scale nation-building operations and should be ready to handle more substantial missions. Building on prior RAND work, this volume presents six case studies of recent European-led nation-building missions, in Albania, Sierra Leone, Macedonia, Côte d'Ivoire, the Congo, and Bosnia, as well as a review of the Australian mission to the Solomon Islands.