The State Department, which favoured a wider policy of nation-building, was trumped by the CIA and the Pentagon, which wanted results fast.
Having campaigned in 2000 against the Clinton administration's policy of "nation building" (that is, using American soldiers to rebuild broken societies and not just to invade, make a mess and then leave without cleaning it up), he now handsomely concedes that "Afghanistan was the ultimate nation-building mission".
Trump criticized Clinton for her "failed policy of nation-building and regime change" and he counted Libya among them.
Trump: We must abandon the failed policy of nation-building and regime change that Hillary Clinton pushed in Iraq, Libya, in Egypt, and Syria.
This may be related to the use of immigration as a policy of nation building as well as epidemiological evidence indicating a greater proportion of disease in foreign-born or migrant populations.
The Obama administration has made increasing exports a central tenet of its economic strategy, and it has pushed for efforts by the I.M.F. and other international bodies to loosen the monetary policies of nations like China.
The I.M.F.'s "market fundamentalism" -- placing much faith in freewheeling markets -- has not worked, he contends, as much as the economic policies of nations like Malaysia, where government intervention provided protection from the worst of the East Asia crisis.
Together these two factors shape the international STI policies of nations.
The social network has, in a little over six years, picked up 500 million users, sucked up a good bit of the world's free time, and not incidentally made possible new forms of organization among strangers that have affected the policies of nations.
Foreign policies of nations naturally will differ.
