A Savage Order, Rachel Kleinfeld
A Savage Order, Rachel Kleinfeld
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A Savage Order
How the World's Deadliest Countries Can Forge a Path to Security

Author: Rachel Kleinfeld

Narrator: Joyce Bean

Unabridged: 12 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/06/2018

Synopsis

The most violent places in the world today are not at war. More people have died in Mexico in recent years than in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. These parts of the world are instead buckling under a maelstrom of gangs, organized crime, political conflict, corruption, and state brutality. Such devastating violence can feel hopeless, yet some places—from Colombia to the Republic of Georgia—have been able to recover.In this powerfully argued and urgent book, Rachel Kleinfeld examines why some democracies, including our own, are crippled by extreme violence and how they can regain security. Drawing on fifteen years of study and firsthand field research—interviewing generals, former guerrillas, activists, politicians, mobsters, and law enforcement in countries around the world—Kleinfeld tells the stories of societies that successfully fought seemingly ingrained violence and offers penetrating conclusions about what must be done to build governments that are able to protect the lives of their citizens.Taking on existing literature and popular theories about war, crime, and foreign intervention, A Savage Order is a blistering yet inspiring investigation into what makes some countries peaceful and others war zones, and a blueprint for what we can do to help.

About Rachel Kleinfeld

RACHEL KLEINFELD is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project. She served under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on the U.S. State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board and has consulted for the U.S., as well as the U.K. and other foreign governments on how to improve their foreign interventions, along with the World Bank, the European Union, the OECD, and many other institutions. She is the author of numerous book chapters, papers, and articles, as well as two books published by think tanks and op-eds in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. She has made numerous appearances on Fox & Friends, The Sean Hannity Show, CNN, BBC, NPR, The Montel Williams Show, Left Jab, and WBAI NYC. Kleinfeld received her B.A. from Yale University and her M.Phil and D.Phil from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes scholar. She serves on the supervisory board of the Justice Leadership Group, a sister organization to Nelson Mandela's The Elders.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carl on March 05, 2019

It was an interesting explanation based on careful analysis of how to fix corruption, I learned a lot. Learning some the history (corruption& violence) of the countries/states/cities mentioned throughout the book was a bonus. Being able to plausably implement these anywhere in the world to a strugglin......more

Goodreads review by Anthony on May 11, 2019

An investigative look at how violence has changed the perspective of how counties around the world uses and misuses and ingrains violence to control, manipulate societies and the people who live within them. Detailed, and profound, the author uses case studies to support and defend her arguments on......more

Goodreads review by Elizabeth on April 26, 2023

5/7. This is a very informative book about violence in societies and how to reform them. It is unfortunate that there are no easy answers and profound to learn that it takes more than a good leader -- society must be ready to follow, and it is very important to have a leader who is politically savvy......more

Goodreads review by Pablo on October 04, 2019

Amazing and down to earth take on multiple strategies pursued by societies in order to achieve security in post-conflict scenarios. The author gives a very real and balanced description of what happened in her chosen case studies, with warts and all.......more

Goodreads review by Tim on April 12, 2022

Recommended to anyone who feels like taking a bullet to their depraved president, or kidnapping their neighboring state's governor, or storming their nation's capital with zip ties and a gallows on the lawn--or, for the first time in their life, contemplating whether they would take up arms against......more

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