Top PCR-Related Publications?

Flickr photo by Army.mil, used under a Creative Commons License. The U.S. government has shifted focus towards stabilization operations and an interagency approach to post-conflict reconstruction.  The new direction of U.S. stabilization operations has been framed and influenced by numerous works on state-building and post-conflict governance.  PCR has identified several of our favorites that have influenced or reflected this new strategy. Vote for your favorite in our poll to the right or contribute a different work to our list. United States Army Field Manual 3-07 Stability Operations Doctrine, October 2008. Fixing Failed States, Ashfaf Ghani & Clare Lockhart, Oxford University Press, 2008. The Beginner's Guide to Nation-building by James Dobbins et al.  RAND Corporation, 2007. International Governance of War-Torn Territories: Rule and Reconstruction by Richard Caplan, Oxford University Press, 2005.  State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century by Francis Fukuyama, Cornell University Press, 2004. Transitional Administration and State-Building by Simon Chesterman, Oxford University Press, 2004. Democracy by Force, Karin von Hippel, Cambridge University Press, 2000.