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Acknowledgments

A huge thank you to the dozens of lawyers, negotiators, arbitrators, activists, and policymakers who, over the course of my reporting this book, gave me hours of their personal time in interviews. I am particularly grateful to those who disagreed with me and yet, quite out of step with modern times, engaged with me anyway, talking through each point with patience and grace. This book is better for it. An extra thanks to those practicing lawyers who, had they billed the hours they spent talking with me, would be today many thousands of dollars richer.

I am also deeply indebted to the goodhearted people—Todd Tucker, Rachel Wellhausen, Henry Farrell, Jay Newton-Small, and Barry Lynn—who read versions along the way. Thank you for your shrewd insight, criticism, and support. The inadequacies of the book are mine; the good bits are thanks to you. Many thanks also to my editors Nicholas Lemann and Jimmy So, publisher Camille McDuffie, and to friends and colleagues at Time magazine for letting me shirk my duties for a bit to write on international investment law.

And last but certainly not least, thank you to my husband, Paul Stephens, my parents, Jane Sweetland and Lee Edwards, and all my wonderful family, genetic and otherwise, including The Compound of greater northeast D.C., for your enduring support. I am so grateful to all of you.