One Nation Under Contract: The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy

by Allison Stanger

Book Overview

A definitive and disturbing look at one of the most important trends in government and global politics: the privatization of American foreign policy and its consequences.

International relations scholar Allison Stanger shows how contractors became an integral part of American foreign policy, often in scandalous ways--but also maintains that contractors aren't the problem; the absence of good government is. Outsourcing done right...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300152655
• ISBN13: 9780300152654
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.6"