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A fragile balance : re-examining the history of foreign aid, security, and diplomacy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Picard, Louis A.
Other Authors: Buss, Terry F.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Sterling, VA : Kumarian Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Economic assistance, American > History > 20th century.
Economic assistance, American > History > 21st century.
United States > Foreign relations > 20th century.
United States > Foreign relations > 2001-2009.
National security > United States.
United States > Military policy.
Table of Contents:
  • Background
  • Foreign aid policy in the twenty-first century
  • International assistance, foreign policy, and security policy
  • Historical antecedents
  • Epochs of aid, diplomacy, and security policy
  • Manifest destiny and American expansionism
  • The impact of two world wars
  • Point Four, USAID, and the Cold War
  • The Vietnam War
  • Basic needs, structural adjustment, and the Cold War's end
  • September 11 and the Iraq War
  • Reconstruction, civic action, and AFRICOM
  • Contemporary aid in historical perspective and beyond
  • From policy to process
  • Donors and clients
  • Debates into the twenty-first century
  • Challenges for the future.