1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794889503321

Autore

Koltai Steven  R.

Titolo

Peace through entrepreneurship : investing in a startup culture for security and development / / Steven R. Koltai with Matthew Muspratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, District of Columbia : , : Brookings Institution Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-8157-2924-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (239 pages)

Classificazione

POL012000BUS025000BUS072000

Disciplina

338/.04

Soggetti

Entrepreneurship - Social aspects

Economic development - Social aspects

Security, International

Entrepreneurship - Developing countries

Peace-building - Developing countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Sommario/riassunto

"Joblessness is the root cause of the global unrest threatening American security. Fostering entrepreneurship is the remedy.  The combined weight of American diplomacy and military power cannot end unrest and extremism in the Middle East and other troubled regions of the world, Steven Koltai argues. Could an alternative approach work? Koltai says yes: by investing in entrepreneurship, and reaping the benefits of the jobs created through entrepreneurial startups.  From 9/11 and the Arab Spring to the self-proclaimed Islamic caliphate, instability and terror breed where young men cannot find jobs. Koltai marshals evidence to show that joblessness - not religious or cultural conflict - is the root cause of the unrest that vexes American foreign policy and threatens international security.  Drawing on Koltai's stint as Senior Adviser for Entrepreneurship in Secretary Hillary Clinton's State Department, and his thirty-year career as a successful entrepreneur and business executive, World Peace through Entrepreneurship argues for the significant elevation of entrepreneurship in the service of



foreign policy. This entrepreneurship is not rural microfinance or mercantile trading. It is the scalable stuff of Silicon Valley and Sam Walton, generating the vast majority of new jobs in economies large and small.  World Peace through Entrepreneurship offers a nonmilitary, long-term solution at a time of disillusionment with Washington's "big development" approach to unstable and underdeveloped parts of the world - and when the new normal is fear of  terrorist attacks against Western targets, beheadings in Syria, and jihad. Extremism will not be resolved by a war on terror.  The answer, Koltai shows, is stimulating economic opportunities for the virtually limitless supply of desperate, unemployed young men and women leading lives of endless economic frustration. Those opportunities will come through entrepreneurship"--