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

"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)

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 information age.

Stanger ma...