Nation, Knowledge, and Imagined Futures: Science, Technology, and Nation-Building, Post-1945

Modernism and Nation Building

Nation - building

Nations stay together when citizens share enough values and preferences. Homogeneity amongst people can be built with education, teaching a common language to facilitate communication, but also by brute force such as prohibiting local cultures. Democracies and dictators have different incentives when it comes to choosing how much and by what means to homogenize the population. We study and we c...

Nation-Building, Nationalism, and Wars∗

This paper explores how the increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. We model the incentives of soldiers to exert effort in war and show that as army size increases paying mercenaries is no longer optimal. In order for the population to accept fi...

nation building in kurdistan: memory, genocide and human rights

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Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building

WORKFORCE AND WORKPLACE Health System Reconstruction and Nation-Building How important is the role of health in nation-building? To answer this question, a RAND team of political scientists, physicians, and economists examined past attempts to rebuild public health and health care delivery systems during nationbuilding eff orts after U.S. military deployments intended to underpin the transition...