The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails 9781107176423, 9781316816936, 2016053741, 1107176425

What do we mean when we use the term 'failed states'? This book presents the origins of the term, how it shape

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The Ideology of Failed States: Why Intervention Fails
9781107176423, 9781316816936, 2016053741, 1107176425

"One of the most important political books of 2018."—Rod Dreher, American Conservative

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Everybody wants breathable air, a healthy population, civil and consensual politics. We want a peaceful world, a stable

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Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails) is an impassioned argument in favor of science—primarily the theory of evolu

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Operating in the vast and varied trans-Appalachian west, the Army of Tennessee was crucially important to the military f

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Western struggles—and failures—to create functioning states in countries such as Iraq or Afghanistan have inspired quest

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The recent financial crisis led to sweeping reforms that inspired countless references to the financial reforms of the N

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"The hour of capitalism's greatest triumph," writes Hernando de Soto, "is, in the eyes of four-fifth

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Dissecting twenty years of educational politics in our nation’s largest cities, American School Reform offers one of the

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Amid fears of Islamic extremism, many Europeans ask whether Muslim immigrants can integrate into historically Christian

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