I’ve spent a good number of years thinking about what it would take to build a tool that people in international development, peacebuilding, and social impact more broadly could use to help them to anticipate whether projects, programs, or other things they’re planning to do are actually feasible. The “MAC” (managing absorptive capacity) research I […]
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In the new security environment, ‘capacity-building’ should give way to ‘legitimacy-building’
Working Paper ■ The first months of 2009 will find the United States with a new president facing a global financial crisis, a resurgent Russia, an ascendant China, questions about Iran’s intentions and Pakistan’s stability, major military commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the concomitant questions about how to allocate U.S. troops between the two. […]
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