Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy

Taffet, Jeffrey

ISBN 10: 0415977711 / ISBN 13: 9780415977715

Published by Routledge, 2007

About this Item

The book is in good condition with all pages and cover intact, including the dust jacket if originally issued. The spine may show light wear. Pages may contain some notes or highlighting, and there might be a "From the library of" label. Boxed set packaging, shrink wrap, or included media like CDs may be missing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415977711
• ISBN 13: 9780415977715
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

About this title

Synopsis

Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy presents a wide-ranging, thoughtful analysis of the most significant economic-aid program of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy’s Alliance for Progress. Introduced in 1961, the program was a ten-year, multi-billion-dollar foreign-aid commitment to Latin American nations, meant to help promote economic growth and political reform, with the long-term goal of countering Communism in the region. Considering the Alliance for Progress in Chile, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, and Colombia, Jeffrey F. Taffet deftly examines the program’s successes and failures, providing an in-depth discussion of economic aid and foreign policy, showing how policies set in the 1960s are still affecting how the U.S. conducts foreign policy today. This study adds an important chapter to the history of US-Latin American Relations.

About the Author

Jeffrey Taffet is Assistant Professor of History at the United States Merchant Marine Academy.