Against Aid

Autorentext

Jeffrey F. Taffet is Professor of History at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. He is the author of Foreign Aid as Foreign Policy: The Alliance for Progress in Latin America (Routledge 2007) and The United States and Latin America: A History with Documents (Routledge 2017, with Dustin Walcher).

Klappentext

Against Aid presents a complex and diverse history of opposition to U.S. foreign aid spending, explaining why critics challenged aid and how they had a significant impact on U.S. foreign policy.

Inhalt

0. Introduction, Two Conversations 1. Foreign Aid in Historical Context 2. Fighting the Marshall Plan and Point Four 3. Aid Opposition and the Public in the 1950s 4. Otto Passman and the Fight Against Modernization Theory 5. Wayne Morse and Aid as Imperialism 6. Nixon, Defeating Aid, and the Path to Basic Human Needs 7. Conclusion