Building in uncertainty : navigating U.S. policy dilemmas in conflict-affected economies
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Populations trapped in war-torn regions with limited access to essential services are subject to greater civil unrest and economic instability. Recurring failures have plagued the United States' reconstruction efforts abroad over the last two decades of military interventions despite unprecedented funding. Our research reveals a paradox of competing approaches to avail essential services for those in conflict-affected economies. One faction favors the direct delivery of infrastructure assets, while the other favors training the host nation to deliver its own assets over time. This ostensible dichotomy makes for devastating counter-productivity across the agencies responsible for consolidating security gains, yet few theoretical frameworks exist to assist leaders in navigating competing interests to coalesce international partners in a highly uncertain environment. We posit a novel framework to explain and predict the second-order effects of the revealed paradox on reconstruction outcomes. Our proposed "Dichotomy Framework" supports enhanced decision-analysis and may be useful to leaders in and beyond the empirical setting of conflict-affected economies.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Hanneken, Michael Robert |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Levitt, Raymond E |
| Thesis advisor | Levitt, Raymond E |
| Thesis advisor | Cupp, O. Shawn |
| Thesis advisor | Jain, Rishee |
| Degree committee member | Cupp, O. Shawn |
| Degree committee member | Jain, Rishee |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Michael Robert Hanneken. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Civil & Environmental Engineering Department. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Michael Robert Hanneken
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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