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Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything de Ruben Andersson

Wreckonomics: Why It's Time to End the War on Everything

Autor Ruben Andersson, David Keen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2023

Bazându-ne pe analizele riguroase publicate de Oxford University Press, observăm cum Wreckonomics demontează mecanismele din spatele unor eșecuri politice cronice. Ruben Andersson și David Keen nu se limitează la a constata ineficiența „războaielor” împotriva terorii, drogurilor sau migrației, ci investighează de ce acestea supraviețuiesc și chiar prosperă în ciuda dovezilor contrare. Autorii argumentează că aceste eșecuri nu sunt anomalii, ci instrumente de profit și avantaje politice, o temă care extinde cadrul propus de The Political Economy of Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the War on Terror de Anne R Bradley cu date noi din perioada post-2021, inclusiv retragerea din Afganistan și gestionarea crizelor sanitare.

În contextul operei sale anterioare, Wreckonomics reprezintă o evoluție firească a cercetărilor lui Ruben Andersson. Dacă în Illegality, Inc. acesta explora industria profitabilă a controlului frontierelor, aici își lărgește perspectiva asupra modului în care „eșecul” este valorificat la nivel sistemic în multiple sfere guvernamentale. Structura cărții este una analitică, trecând de la examinarea stimulentelor perverse la oferirea unor strategii concrete de ieșire din acest cerc vicios. Recomandăm acest volum pentru rigoarea cu care tratează subiecte sensibile, precum impactul „războiului împotriva migrației” asupra drepturilor omului, fără a recurge la superlative, ci bazându-se pe o documentare vastă a realităților politice contemporane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197645925
ISBN-10: 0197645925
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 226 x 163 x 56 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Wreckonomics oricărui cititor interesat de politică externă și sociologie care dorește să înțeleagă de ce guvernele persistă în strategii ineficiente. Este o lectură esențială pentru a descifra cum eșecul sistemic poate deveni o resursă politică. Veți câștiga o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care sunt gestionate crizele globale actuale, de la securitate la migrație.

Despre autor

Ruben Andersson este cercetător postdoctoral la Departamentul de Dezvoltare Internațională din cadrul London School of Economics și cercetător asociat la Universitatea din Stockholm. Expertiza sa în antropologie socială și relații internaționale este evidentă în lucrările sale anterioare, precum No Go World și Illegality, Inc., unde a analizat intersecția dintre securitate, migrație și profit. Cercetările sale se concentrează pe zonele de frontieră și pe industriile care apar în jurul gestionării crizelor globale.

Descriere

The United States' ignominious exit from Afghanistan in 2021 topped two decades of failure and devastation wrought by the war on terror. A long-running "fight against migration" has stoked chaos and rights abuses while pushing migrants onto more dangerous routes. For its part, the war on drugs has failed to dampen narcotics demand while fueling atrocities from Mexico to the Philippines. Why do such "failing" policies persist for so long? And why do politicians keep feeding the very crises they say they are combating?In Wreckonomics, Ruben Andersson and David Keen analyze why disastrous policies live on even when it has become apparent that they do not work. The perverse outcomes of the fights against terror, migration, and drugs are more than a blip or an anomaly. Rather, the proliferation of wars and pseudo-wars has become a dangerous political habit and an endless source of political advantage and profit. From combating crime to the war on drugs, from civil wars to global wars and even "covid wars," chronic failure has been harnessed to the appearance of success. Over a wide variety of spheres, problems have persisted and worsened not so much despite the "wars" and "fights" waged against them as thanks to these floundering endeavors.Covering a range of cases around the world, Wreckonomics exposes and interrogates the incentive systems that allow destructive policies to flourish in the face of systemic failure—while offering strategies for tackling our addiction to waging war on everything.

Recenzii

Something's terribly wrong with our public policy. Tasked with managing migration, countering terrorism, and protecting us from pandemic disease, among other things, our institutions seem to thrive amid the wreckage. Ruben Andersson and David Keen explain why. Lively and cogent, Wreckonomics provides us with the lens and the language to make sense of how failure can be success, over and over again.
To understand the perverse logic of why failing policies are nevertheless politically successful-ranging from the war on drugs to the war on terror-I cannot think of a better introduction than Wreckonomics. In this highly accessible and engaging book, Andersson and Keen provide a damning dissection of our extraordinarily costly and counterproductive addiction to militarized interventions. As we've reached the 20th anniversary of the 2003 invasion of Iraq and continue to live with its disastrous consequences-with the perpetrators not only not held accountable but highly rewarded-the book could not be a more timely and important contribution.
Elegantly written, thought-provoking and persuasively argued. Andersson and Keen offer a powerful and incisive critique of the conventional narratives that have tended to dominate debate about the motives, dynamics, and effects of contemporary "wars and security interventions", forcing the reader to discard lazy assumptions and drawing their attention instead to mechanisms and logics that have served to perpetuate rather than meaningfully address many of the most urgent challenges facing humanity.
Applying a sophisticated systems approach to issues spanning the globe, Wreckonomics makes major contributions to international relations and policy analysis.
Based on outstanding original research, thought provoking in its conclusions and challenging in every chapter.
[A] deeply-researched and wide-ranging account of how, despite manifest failings, the wars on terror, drugs and migration are entrenched in Western policy as a kind of perma-crisis for which its principal architects are never held responsible.
Provocative and thought-provoking ... the authors make their important case made with verve and style.
A remarkable new book [that] paints a searing portrait of our era of sham politics and fake wars... couldn't be more timely as the world stumbles into 2024.
Wreckonomics is not only an extensively researched argument against the war on everything; at its heart, it is a manifesto against simplicity ... it truly is a challenging read in the best sense of the word: we could all to with thinking more deeply about how to move beyond the war on everything.
Valuable.
An impressive book ... full of striking information and intelligent insights.
Everyone should, however, be wiser for considering their explanations, because they ring true ... Well, written... For those still interested in understanding how the world works, this book is a good start.
well written, informative book.

Notă biografică

Ruben Andersson is a professor of social anthropology at the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford. His research has been concerned with borders, migration and security, and he is the author of No Go World (2019) and Illegality, Inc. (2014), winner of the 2015 BBC Ethnography Award. David Keen is a professor of conflict studies at the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has researched civil wars, global wars and disasters. He is the author of The Benefits of Famine (1994) and Useful Enemies (2012), among other books, and winner of the Edgar Graham prize.