How to make love to a despot : an alternative foreign policy for the twenty-first century /
After generations of foreign policy failures, America can now make the world safer by abandoning utopian goals and working with difficult characters. In the past fifty years, the United States has invested hundreds of billions of dollars in the idea that state-building can make the world "safe...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,
[2020].
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- So you want to make the world a better place
- The nature of threats in the modern era
- Accounting for history and human nature
- The difficulty in replicating success
- Good enough governance
- Corruption is unavoidable
- Elections sometimes lead to bad outcomes
- Historical examples of forcing your neighbor's hand
- What happened in Afghanistan and Iraq?
- Colombia, a model for good enough governance
- The rare occurrence of consolidated democracy.