Dr.Rice's National Security Strategy was published in February, 2003 by The Brookings Institution:
"A new U.S. strategy should combine improved intelligence collection with more aggressive efforts at conflict resolution and post-conflict 'nation-building' in global crisis zones. Creating pockets of improved development and security would help limit the operating space of international outlaws. Thus, the United States should devise innovative ways to assist failed and failing states through targeted development and counterterrorism assistance as well as improved trade access to the U.S. market."