Can Intervention Work?

Best-selling author Rory Stewart and political economist Gerald Knaus examine the impact of large-scale interventions, from Bosnia to Afghanistan. Rory Stewart (author of The Places In Between) and Gerald Knaus distill their firsthand experiences of political and military interventions into an examination of what we can and cannot achieve in a new era of "nation building." They analyze efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan, the Balkans, the expansion of the EU, and the bloodless "color" revolutions in the former Soviet states, discussing their consequences for international relations, human rights, and state building. The authors explore different intervention philosophies and draw on their diverse experiences to assess what can be expected from large-scale interventions and how to achieve positive change.