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nation building: a standalone construct

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Economic history

efforts by foreign powers to build states and loyalty, studied through how US military strategy in Vietnam affected local support.

In economic history, nation building refers to efforts by foreign powers to build states and loyalty, studied through how US military strategy in Vietnam affected local support. This meaning comes from Dell (2017) in The Quarterly Journal of Economics.[1]

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References

Dell, M., & Querubin, P. (2017). Nation Building Through Foreign Intervention: Evidence from Discontinuities in Military Strategies. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 133(2), 701-764. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjx037

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