![]() "A number of America's founding fathers expressed the view that foreign military ventures would come at a high cost. Glennon, author of National Security and Double Government ![]() A powerful, original indictment of America's warrior state ideology." Coyne and Hall deftly show how incessant foreign meddling undermines the very domestic freedoms it is intended to preserve. "Anyone who believes that decades of thoughtless military interventionism have enhanced America's well-being needs to read Tyranny Comes Home. John Mueller, Ohio State University and Cato Institute "An adept and engaging examination of the processes by which militaristic policy abroad can lead to the loss of civil liberties at home." Stephen Kinzer, Watson Institute, Brown University, Columnist, The Boston Globe, and author of The True Flag ![]() It is a wonderfully insightful look at the connections between the violence of American foreign policy and our shrinking democracy at home." " Tyranny Comes Home argues that a nation cannot act brutally in the world and still respect the rights and liberties of its own people. Tyranny Comes Home illustrates this phenomena in the United States, while offering a path to reclaiming the 'Great Republic.'" Coyne and Hall document one way in which that is the case: the architecture of social control created by militarism is easily adapted to domestic life. "An old German saying claims that losing a war is bad, but winning a war is worse. Deirdre Nansen McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago One can only respond with the cant phrase, heard often in these latter days, which would be better applied to peaceful, intellectual exchanges than to the corrupting enterprise of foreign intervention: 'Thank you for your service.'" "Coyne and Hall brilliantly reveal that a fatal coarsening comes with the rise of an empire. Randall Holcombe, Florida State University I know of no other work that makes such a clear connection between foreign intervention and the erosion of domestic civil liberties." Coyne and Hall show just how mistaken that view is. 'peacekeeping' efforts abroad help to protect American civil liberties at home. Joshua Hall, West Virginia University, and coauthor of Economic Freedom of the World Report "Clearly and boldly argued, this is an excellent contribution to our understanding of the economics of interventionism." It gives us alarming insight into incidents like the shooting in Ferguson, Missouri and the Snowden case-which tell a common story about contemporary foreign policy and its impact on our civil liberties. Tyranny Comes Home unveils a new aspect of the symbiotic relationship between foreign interventions and domestic politics. Synthesizing research and applying an economic lens, they develop a generalizable theory to predict and explain a startling trend. Under certain conditions, these policies, tactics, and technologies are then re-imported to America, changing the national landscape and increasing the extent to which we live in a police state.Ĭoyne and Hall examine this pattern-which they dub "the boomerang effect"-considering a variety of rich cases that include the rise of state surveillance, the militarization of domestic law enforcement, the expanding use of drones, and torture in U.S. government is able to experiment with a broader range of social controls. Emboldened by the relative weakness of governance abroad, the U.S. Overseas, our government takes actions in the name of defense that would not be permissible within national borders. Hall urge engaged citizens to think again. Many Americans believe that foreign military intervention is central to protecting our domestic freedoms.
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