The Cold War mentality that the enemy of my enemy is my friend continues to drive alliances. In Alliance Curse, (Brookings Press, July 2008), Hilton Root, a professor of public policy at George Mason, argues that the U.S. should foster economic development in the third world rather than supply aid to authoritarian regimes on the basis of their promise to support us in the war on terror.

Hilton L. Root is a professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy and a senior fellow with the Mercatus Center. He has served as adviser to the U.S. Treasury and the Asian Development Bank and has taught at Stanford University and the University of Pennsylvania. Root has a number of books to his credit, including Capital & Collusion: The Political Logic of Global Economic Development (Princeton, 2006), Governing for Prosperity, edited with Bruce Bueno de Mesquita (Yale, 2000), and The Key to the Asian Miracle, with J. E. Campos (Brookings, 1996).

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