Explores the history of American foreign aid, discussing its failures and successes and placing aid in the context of larger security and foreign policy goals from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries

This timely work presents cutting-edge analysis of the problems of U.S. foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved in the past, and how they might be solved in the future. The book focuses primarily on U.S. foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation...