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

"'As governments around the world contract out important tasks to private corporations, Allison Stanger has asked the key question: how do citizens reestablish effective oversight over private-public partnerships? One Nation Under Contract is a clarion call to bring the business of government under more effective public control.' Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada 'As we debate how many more troops to dispatch to Afghanistan, it might be a good time to also debate just how far we've already gone in hiring private contractors to do jobs that the State Department, Pentagon and C.I.A. once did on their own. A good place to start is with... One Nation Under Contract.' Thomas Friedman, New York Times"

Utilizing private contractors is essential to American interests, but it must be done right, asserts international relations scholar Allison Stanger, who presents a bold vision of what that approach should be. "As we debate how many more troops to dispatch to Afghanistan, it might be a good time to also debate just how far we've already gone in hiring private contractors to do jobs that the State Department, Pentagon and C.I.A. once did on their own. A good place to start is with . . . One Nation Under Contract."-Thomas Friedman, New York Times "A fascinating book about military contractors and just how big a role they play in U.S. defense policy."- Fareed Zakaria, CNN's GPS (Book of the Week) "The real strength of this superb book is not what it reveals, as stunning as that may be, but how well [Stanger] assimilates the changed circumstances of modern-day governance and simply addresses what now must be done. . . . Stanger deserves a gold medal for this book."-Mickey Edwards, Boston Globe "Powerfully argued . . . provocative. . . . By shining a light on what she calls America's 'shadow government,' [Stanger] does us the great favor of triggering a long overdue political debate."- Thomas P.M. Barnett, World Politics Review