1st Edition
Local Interests and American Foreign Policy Why International Interventions Fail
By Karl Sandstrom
Copyright 2013
192 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
7 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book provides an alternative perspective on how social interest-groups form and interact to affect interventions. It combines historic, sociological and international relations perspectives in a framework through which to view the relevant socio-political dynamics in ‘target societies’. At a time when American foreign policy seeks to redefine its objectives and its methods of intervention,... Read more
Introduction 1. Strategies and assumptions 2. Towards a framework for viewing socio-political dynamics 3. Somalia and Somaliland – In the Shade of the Meeting Tree 4. Afghanistan – In the Shadows of Mountains 5. Conclusions
Biography
Karl Sandstrom recently finished a two-year project with the University of Bristol during which he spent close to nine months doing research in Afghanistan. Karl now works as a freelance consultant and retains a strong research interest in Afghanistan, Somalia, interventions and social mobilization.
