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Foreign Aid
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...international peacebuilders usually arrive in new theaters of deployment with a clear sense of belonging to a specific group – a group markedly different from local populations.
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― Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
― Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
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Democrats fight where they have policy concerns... war for democrats is just another way of achieving the goals for which foreign aid would otherwise be used. Foreign aid buys policy concessions, war imposes them... democrats would much prefer to impose a compliant dictator,... then take their chances on the policies adopted by a democrat who must answer to her own domestic constituents
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― The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
― The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics
