Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence
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Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence

Aiding and Abetting: U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence

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Jessica Trisko Darden (Author)  

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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. CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning -No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Jessica Trisko Darden is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service at American University.
  • Contributor: Jessica Trisko Darden
  • Imprint: Stanford University Press
  • ISBN13: 9781503610231
  • Number of Pages: 216
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Release Date: 2019-11-19
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Jessica Trisko Darden is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the School of International Service at American University.

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