Strength through peace : how demilitarization led to peace and happiness in Costa Rica, and what the rest of the world can learn from a tiny, tropical nation /
Costa Rica is the only fully demilitarized, completely independent country in the world. Through good luck, good leadership and good decisions, Costa Rica has become arguably the sanest and most progressive country on earth. This book examines how and why Costa Rica is safe and independent without a...
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Pursuing the paradox
- War and human nature
- Costa Rica's demilitarization
- Demilitarization elsewhere
- Good luck
- Good policy
- The past as prologue
- Guns and butter, bananas and coffee
- National security : bombs, bonobos, and banks
- On the fragility of good things.