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

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 is, in fact, indispensable to America’s interests in the inform...