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

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

Title remainder

U.S. foreign assistance and state violence

Statement of responsibility

Jessica Trisko Darden

Creator

• Trisko Darden, Jessica

Author

• Trisko Darden, Jessica

Subject

• Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries
• Human rights
• Human rights -- Developing countries
• Military assistance, American
• Developing countries
• Political persecution
• Political persecution -- Developing countries
• State-sponsored terrorism
• State-sponsored terrorism -- Developing countries
• Military assistance, American -- Developing countries
• Economic assistance, American

Language

eng

Summary

"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."--

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CSt/DLC

Dewey number

323/.044

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

JC599.D44

LC item number

T75 2020

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography