Louis A Picard, Robert Groelsema, Terry F Buss

Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy

Lessons for the Next Half-Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents an analysis of the problems of US foreign assistance programs - why these problems have not been solved, and how they might be solved. This book focuses on US foreign assistance and foreign policy as they apply to nation building, governance, and democratization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 162mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 626g
• ISBN-13: 9780765620446
• ISBN-10: 0765620448
• Artikelnr.: 23278775

Autorenporträt

Louis A Picard (University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA) (Author) , Robert Groelsema (Edited by) , Terry F Buss (Suffolk University, Boston National Academy of Public Administration).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreign Aid Priorities: Goals for the Twenty-first Century, Louis A.
Picard and Robert Groelsema; Part 1. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy
Debates; 2. Foreign Aid and Security: A Renewed Debate? Lawrence Korb; 3.
Foreign Aid in the Twenty-first Century: What Purposes? Carol Lancaster; 4.
Foreign Aid in the National Interest: The Importance of Democracy and
Governance, Larry Diamond; 5. Foreign Aid in Comparative Perspective:
Regime Dynamics and Donor Interests, Steven W. Hook; Part 2. Case Studies
in Foreign Aid; 6. Building Local Governance in Iraq: Limits and Lessons,
Derick W. Brinkerhoff; 7. Foreign Aid and South Asia: The Case of Pakistan,
Robert LaPorte, Jr.; 8. Donors, Public Sector Reform and Decentralization:
Democracy and Civil Society in Ghana, Louis A. Picard, Robert Groelsema,
and Ted Lawrence; 9. Why Aid to Haiti Failed - and How to Do It Better Next
Time, Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner; 10. USAID and Eastern Europe:
Something Old, Something New, Kevin F.F. Quigley; 11. Post-Millennium U.S.
Foreign Aid for Africa: Reconciling Freedom and Security, Theirs and Ours,
John W. Harbeson; Part 3. Organizational Dynamics and Foreign Aid Policy;
12. Transformational Trends in Aid Government and Democracy, W. Haven North
and Jeanne Foote North; 13. Higher Education, Capacity Building, and
Foreign Aid: Lessons Learned, Ralph Smuckler and Louis A. Picard; 14. NGOs
in the Foreign Aid System, Paul Nelson; 15. The Millennium Challenge
Account: An Early Appraisal, Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner; 16. Deepening
Local Democratic Governance: Connecting the Dots in Sub-Saharan Africa,
John W. Harbeson; Part 4. International Assistance and Development; 17.
Diasporas and Development: What Role for Foreign Aid? Jennifer M.
Brinkerhoff; 18. Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Developing Countries, Jose
Uribe and Terry F. Bu; 19. Aid and Development: A Conceptual Perspective
from Development Economics, Siddharth Chandra; 20. Mainstreaming of
Democracy and Governance in Foreign Assistance, Jennifer Windsor; About the
Editors and Contributors; Index