This is a collection of papers presented at the Marshall Legacy Symposium: Partnerships for the Future, held in Washington, D.C. in January 1996 involving 450 civilian and military leaders from forty-three NATO and Partnership for Peace countries. The aim of the symposium was to promote peace, democracy and prosperity by encouraging improved relations among the countries of Europe and with the United States. Co-published with the Program on Transitions to Democracy.Contents: Partnerships for Peace: U.S. Perspectives; European Perspectives; International Civil-Military Cooperation. Parterships to Encourage Democracy. Partnerships for Prosperity. The Marshall Legacy--Implications for the Future. Partnerships in the Information Age. Future International Challeges. Appendices.

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It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world's leading political economists, argues this view is wrong: advanced democracies are resilient, and their enduring historical relationship with capitalism has been mutually beneficial. For all the chaos and upheaval over the past century--major wars, economic crises, massive social change, and technological revolutions--Torben Iversen and David Soskice show how democratic states continuously reinvent their economies through massive public investment in research and education, by imposing competitive product markets and cooperation in the workplace, and by securing macroeconomic discipline as the preconditions for innovation and the promotion of the advanced sectors of the economy. Critically, this investment has generated vast numbers of well-paying jobs for the middle classes and their children, focusing the aims of aspirational families, and in turn providing electoral support for parties. Gains at the top have also been shared with the middle (though not the bottom) through a large welfare state. Contrary to the prevailing wisdom on globalization, advanced capitalism is neither footloose nor unconstrained: it thrives under democracy precisely because it cannot subvert it. Populism, inequality, and poverty are indeed great scourges of our time, but these are failures of democracy and must be solved by democracy.

Since its creation in 1963, United States Southern Command has been led by 30 senior officers representing all four of the armed forces. None has undertaken his leadership responsibilities with the cultural sensitivity and creativity demonstrated by Admiral Jim Stavridis during his tenure in command. Breaking with tradition, Admiral Stavridis discarded the customary military model as he organized the Southern Command Headquarters. In its place he created an organization designed not to subdue adversaries, but instead to build durable and enduring partnerships with friends. His observation that it is the business of Southern Command to launch "ideas not missiles" into the command's area of responsibility gained strategic resonance throughout the Caribbean and Central and South America, and at the highest levels in Washington, DC.

An evidence-based analysis of governance focusing on the institutional capacities and qualities that reduce the risk of armed conflict.