Imagining assistance: Tales from the American aid experience in Iraq in 2006 and Pakistan in 2011 (Cameron Munter, Brookings)

For more than a decade, government assistance to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan (the so-called AIP countries) has dominated United States aid efforts. And as the examples below illustrate, American institutions and mindsets found it extraordinarily difficult to adjust to aid in unsafe places. Cameron Munter draws on his experience as the head of the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Mosul, Iraq in 2006 and as ambassador of the United States to Pakistan in Islamabad in 2011, with a description of U.S. reconstruction and state-building from which we may find lessons to consider in the future.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/papers/2016/03/local-orders-pakistan-iraq-munter