The end of evil?(Letters)(Letter to the editor)

Foreign Policy, May, 2009 by Feaver, Peter D.

I appreciate what Niall Ferguson ("The Axis of Upheaval," March/April 2009) is trying to do, and I certainly agree with him that economic upheaval has potentially profound geopolitical ramifications and that failing states are a source of instability in international affairs. I have been teaching this point for nearly 15 years, ever since I read another article that made exactly this case, Robert Kaplan's "The Coming Anarchy," during my time as a staffer on the National Security Council (NSC) in the first Clinton administration. And just because the idea isn't new doesn't make it not true.

It is true, and significant parts of the Bush National Security Strategy released in 2006 were devoted to dealing with this problem.

What is less reliable is...

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