BEYOND WAR

Reviewed 10/16/2013

Beyond War, by David Rohde

Access to this book courtesy of the
San Jose, CA Public Library
BEYOND WAR
Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East
David Rohde
New York: Viking, April 2013

Rating:

5.0

High

ISBN-13 978-0-670-02644-9
ISBN-10 0-670-02644-1 220pp. HC $27.95

Errata

Page 12: "The agency was a shell of its cold war self."
  Capitalization: S/B "Cold War"
Page 120: "In 2005, he returned to Pakinstan to coordinate USAID's response to a devastating earthquake in the country's north."
  Spelling: S/B "Pakistan"
Page 141: "Second, to use e-commerce to preserve Egypt's traditional handcraft sector..."
  Spelling: S/B "handicrafts".
Page 150: "The fellowship was unpaid and did not offer fellows a housing stipend."
  Capitalization: S/B "Fellowship" and "Fellows".
Page 153: "Others, he found, were committed to government service but beaten down by a system that resisted changed."
  Spelling: S/B "change".
Page 153: "Fearful of criticism and budget cuts from Capitol Hill, risk aversion was endemic across the government..."
  Dangling participle: S/B "civil servants became risk-averse" or something similar.
Page 160: "The right approach, the better approach, is bite-sized contracts and grants that are close to the action, that are more flexible, that can't respond to changed approaches..."
  Word choice: S/B "can".
Page 170: "Washington's continued infighting and partisanship is taking too great a toll."
  Number error: S/B "are"
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