The Elliott School of International Affairs and the Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies present a special book talk and author event:
A Savage Order:
How the World's Deadliest Countries
Can Forge a Path to Security
Featuring author
Rachel Kleinfeld
with introductory remarks from Elliott School
Associate Professor & Director of Security Policy Studies,
Arturo C. Sotomayor
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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.
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Dr. Rachel Kleinfeld
is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she focuses on issues of rule of law, security, and governance in post-conflict countries, fragile states, and states in transition.
As the founding CEO of the Truman National Security Project, she spent nearly a decade leading a movement of national security, political, and military leaders working to promote people and policies that strengthen security, stability, rights, and human dignity in America and around the world. In 2011, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton appointed Kleinfeld to the Foreign Affairs Policy Board, which advises the secretary of state quarterly, a role she served through 2014.
Named one of the top 40 Under 40 Political Leaders in America by Time magazine in 2010, Kleinfeld has been featured in the
New York Times
, the
Wall Street Journal
,
Fox News
, and other national television, radio, and print media.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2018
1:00-2:30pm
Room 505
Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E St NW
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This event is on the record and open to the public. Books will be available for sale.
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The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES)
Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University
1957 E Street, NW / Suite 412 / Washington, DC 20052
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