Aiding and abetting : U.S. foreign assistance and state violence /

The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid doe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Trisko Darden, Jessica (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020.
Temas:
Human rights > Developing countries.
Political persecution > Developing countries.
State-sponsored terrorism > Developing countries.
Military assistance, American > Developing countries.
Economic assistance, American > Developing countries.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General.
Economic assistance, American.
Human rights.
Military assistance, American.
Political persecution.
State-sponsored terrorism.
Entwicklungshilfe.
Entwicklungspolitik.
Gewalt.
Konflikt.
Militärhilfe.
Politik.
Menschenrecht.
Auswirkung.
Wirtschaftshilfe.
Empfängerland.
Developing countries.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S. interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human freedom.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1503611000
9781503611009

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