Can Intervention Work?

By: Rory Stewart

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Paperback | 1 August 2012 | Edition Number 1

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In Can Intervention Work?, Stewart and Knaus explore the contemporary emergence of large-scale political and military interventions, revealing the seismic consequences they've had for both the intervening and intervened countries. They note that in less than a decade the U.S. and its European allies went from being reluctant participants in 'nation building' in the Balkans to embracing all-encompassing blueprints for reshaping every aspect of a country's political life in Afghanistan. This shift has introduced powerful new ideas to the debate about what large-scale interventions can achieve, but it has also demonstrated the costs and challenges of such comprehensive undertakings. Assessing in two in-depth essays the major interventionist campaigns in Bosnia, Iraq, and Afghanistan, Stewart and Knaus show what has worked in these campaigns and, perhaps more importantly, what has failed and continues to fail in our intervention efforts today. Drawing on vivid first-hand experience, the authors have written a rich and insightful examination of contemporary international politics, one with far-reaching and vital ramifications.

Industry Reviews

"I devoured this brilliant Burkean tract at a sitting. Is it too much to hope that it will be read not just in Downing Street and the Foreign Office, but also the State Department and the White House?" Peter Oborne, The Daily Telegraph "This is a book for our times..." The Spectator "Can we intervene in foreign countries and do good?...Rory Stewart and Gerald Knaus are well placed to pose and answer these questions." The Economist "...Stewart and Knaus are both practitioners and scholars - with particular experience in Afghanistan and Bosnia, respectively. The combined effect is pessimistic, without actually ruling out further interventions." Gideon Rachman, The Financial Times, non-fiction favourites of 2011 "Rory Stewart MP and his co-author ask when it is right to intervene in another country and why it can all go disastrously wrong." The Sunday Times "A fresh and critically important perspective on foreign interventions." Washington Post "Presenting a well thought-out argument which compels us to change the way we conduct interventions..." Soldier

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