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25. U.S. House of Representatives, State, Foreign Operations,
and Related Programs Appropriations Bill, 2010, House Report 111187, 111th Cong., 1st sess. (June 26, 2009), 12. https://www.gpo.gov/
fdsys/pkg/CRPT-111hrpt187/pdf/CRPT-111hrpt187.pdf
(accessed
March 19, 2016).
26. Dominic Tierney, “The Backlash Against Nation Building,” Prism 5, No 3, (Fall 2015): 15.
27. Bush, NSPD-44, 4.
28. Interview with Department of State (DOS) official, February 29, 2016.
29. Gordon Adams, “The Institutional Imbalance of American
Statecraft,” 24-25.
30. Bensahel, et al., Improving Capacity, 43.
31. Karen DeYoung, “How the Obama White House Runs
Foreign Policy,” Washington Post, August 28, 2015; Mirko Crnkovich, The National Security Council: A Primer and Recommendations
for Change, Eisenhower School Individual Research Paper (Washington, DC: The Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, National Defense University, May 26,
2015), 43-48.
32. U.S. Department of State Home Page, “Haiti,” at http://www.
state.gov/j/cso/where/ engagements/haiti/index.htm (accessed March
19, 2016).
33. S/CRS, Georgia Engagement, 1-5.
34. was also a factor in the decision to restructure S/CRS into
CSO, particularly as Section 1207 funding phased out after Fiscal Year 2010. Up to that time, S/CRS’s efforts to coordinate and
lead civilian agencies’ R&S efforts and manage the CRC had cost
over $100 million a year, whereas the transition to CSO reflected a
more modest funding level drawing primarily from DOS resources. Telephone interview with Neal Kringel, a current CSO official,
February 24, 2016.

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