Peace through entrepreneurship
Subtitle: investing in a startup culture for security and development
By: Steven  R. Koltai with Matthew  Muspratt
Contributors: Muspratt, Matthew, author
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9780815729235
Subjects: International Security; Social aspects; Peace-building; Civil society; American Economic assistance; Economic development; Entrepreneurship
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-199) and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction; title: PART I: THE PROBLEM; title: 2. It's all about jobs; title: 3. A million reasons entrepreneurship is good for you; title: 4. American made; title: 5. Through the looking glass; title: 6. Turning a screw with a rubber screwdriver; title: PART II: THE SOLUTION; title: 7. It takes an ecosystem; title: 8. How it works and who does it; title: 9. A business plan.