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Can Intervention Work?

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Description for Can Intervention Work? Paperback. Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Series: Norton Global Ethics Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions (Washington Post), Can Intervention Work? distills Rory Stewart's (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus's remarkable firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into a potent examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of nation building. As they delve into the massive, military-driven efforts in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, the authors reveal each effort's enormous consequences for international relations, human rights, and our understanding of state building. Stewart and Knaus parse carefully the philosophies that have informed interventionism-from neoconservative to liberal imperialist-and draw ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Series
Norton Global Ethics Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393342246
SKU
V9780393342246
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About Rory Stewart
Rory Stewart is a member of the British Parliament and the former Ryan Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard University's Kennedy School. Gerald Knaus, founding chairman of the European Stability Initiative, is a Carr Center Fellow at Harvard University's Kennedy School.

Reviews for Can Intervention Work?
I devoured this brilliant Burkean tract at a sitting. Is it too much to hope that it will be read not just in Downing Street and the Foreign Office, but also the State Department and the White House? Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph This is a book for our times... The Spectator ... Read more

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