Hutton Honors College

Exporting Democracy:
Miltary Intervention vs. Free Trade vs. ???

Discussion Lunch with Political Economist Christopher Coyne,
Author of After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy

Monday, February 1, 2010 * 12:45-2:15 p.m. * HHC Building (811 E. Seventh St.) * SIGN-UP REQUIRED

Can military intervention bring about democracy in another country? Can liberal democratic institutions and ideals be exported? Can weak and failing states be reconstructed by the international community? What are the prospects in Iraq and Afghanistan? With what consequences for those countries and for international security?

Join political economist Christopher Coyne for a discussion of alternatives to military intervention—in particular, free trade as a means to bring about a more peaceful world if not Western-style democracy.

Coyne is the author of two books, After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy and Media, Development, and Institutional Change, and many book chapters and articles. He is an editorial board member for the Journal of Private Enterprise and the North American editor for The Review of Austrian Economics. His many positions and honors including being named the F.A. Hayek Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a Distinguished Scholar at the Center for the Study of Political Economy at Hampden-Sydney College.

Coyne is on campus as a guest of the School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and will be speaking on Monday, February 1, 11:15 a.m.-12:15 p.m. on "The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy" in the Tavis Smiley Atrium of the SPEA building.

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