{"product_id":"confronting-poverty-9780815703907","title":"Confronting Poverty","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormer Brookings Senior Fellow Susan E. Rice spearheads an investigation of the connections between poverty and fragile states and the implications for American security. Coedited by Rice and former Brookings colleagues Corinne Graff and Carlos Pascual, \u003ci\u003eConfronting Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e is a timely reminder that alleviating global poverty and shoring up weak states are not only humanitarian and economic imperatives, but key components of a more balanced and sustainable U.S. national security strategy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRice elucidates the relationship between poverty, state weakness, and transnational security threats, and Graff and Pascual offer policy recommendations. The book''s overarching conclusions highlight the need to invest in poverty alleviation and capacity building in weak states in order to break the vicious cycle of poverty, fragility, and transnational threats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eConfronting Poverty\u003c\/i\u003e grows out of a project on global poverty and U.S. national security that Rice directed\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038468702551,"sku":"9780815703907","price":23.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780815703907.jpg?v=1750940395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/confronting-poverty-9780815703907","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}