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How to Make Love to a Despot
- An Alternative Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Stephen D. Krasner
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6
Since the end of the second World War, the United States has sunk hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign economies in the hope that its investments would help remake the world in its own image - or, at the very least, make the world "safe for democracy." So far, the returns have been disappointing, to say the least. Pushing for fair and free elections in undemocratic countries has added to the casualty count, rather than taken away from it, and trying to eliminate corruption entirely has precluded the elimination of some of the worst forms of corruption.
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A Sober & Rational Take
- By Miguel V on 08-11-20
- How to Make Love to a Despot
- An Alternative Foreign Policy for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Stephen D. Krasner
- Narrated by: David de Vries
A Sober & Rational Take
Reviewed: 08-11-20
Krasner presents a sober take on the different regime types around the world & how consolidated liberal democracies are not the norm. He asserts that "Good Enough Government" in despotic regimes is not a policy that the U.S. should settle for, but rather, should strive towards.
Krasner illustrates this main point with many many real world examples of countries with different polity types; Nigeria, S. Korea, Colombia, Afghanistan, Denmark, Brazil, & Botswana are but a few of the different states he uses to ultimately build the case for a new type of U.S. foreign policy based in Rational Choice Institution theory.
I HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS BOOK for anyone interested in fragile states, historical storytelling, new national security strategies for the 21st Century, and for anyone looking to go past all the basic analysis of cable news, social media, and Youtube punditry.
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