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15. Gordon Adams, “The Institutional Imbalance of American Statecraft,” in Mission Creep: The Militarization of U.S. Foreign
Policy?, ed. Gordon Adams and Shoon Murray, (Washington:
Georgetown University Press, 2014), 28.
16. Department of State, Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS), Lessons Learned and Recommendations – S/CRS Georgia Engagement – August 11, 2009 [sic] –
October 31, 2008, internal office memorandum (Washington, DC:
S/CRS, January 30, 2009) 1-5; interview with former S/CRS official, Washington, DC, February 12, 2016.
17. Interview with U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP) official,
Washington, DC, December 3, 2015.
18. Nora Bensahel, Olga Oliker, Heather Peterson. Improving
Capacity for Stabilization and Reconstruction Operations (Santa Monica, CA: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2009), 34-37.
19. Interview with USIP official, Washington, DC, December
3, 2015.
20. U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of
Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA), USAID Office of Foreign
Disaster Assistance (Washington, DC: OFDA, January 21, 2016).
https://www.usaid.gov/sites/default/files/documents/1866/OFDA_fact_
sheet_01-21-2016.pdf (accessed March 19, 2016).
21. OTI’s mission is “to provide fast, flexible, short-term assistance to take advantage of windows of opportunity to build
democracy and peace. It lays the foundations for long-term development by promoting reconciliation, jumpstarting economies
and helping stable democracy take hold.” USAID Office of Transition Initiatives Home Page at “Background,” https://www.usaid.gov/
political-transition-initiatives/background (accessed March 10, 2016).
22. Interview with USIP official, Washington, DC, December
3, 2015.
23. Serafino, Peacekeeping/Stabilization, 10.
24. Ibid., 14.

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