Drawing on the experiences of six expatriate leaders who, collectively, had more than 78 years of experience managing United States Agency for International Development (USAID) international development projects in 26 countries around the world, this book provides a scholarly analysis of their...

Growing Up In Norway -- Early Study and Work Years -- Point of No Return -- West Africa -- Other African Countries -- Russian Far East -- East Asia -- Caribbean and Europe -- Economic Development Lessons -- Conclusions.

"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID -- "In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War -- Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization -- Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror -- Development...