A definitive and disturbing look at one of the most important trends in government and global politics: the privatization of American foreign policy and its con

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Allison Stanger examines the American government's approach to outsourcing, discussing the evolution of military outsourcing, the privatization of diplomacy, an

Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in

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