Introduction: Economic Statecraft Revisited 1. - 1. Countering the China Embargo and the Origins of the PRC's Economic Statecraft, 1949-1955 21. - 2. Seeking Soviet Aid While Resisting Moscow's Influence, 1953-1963 59. - 3. Transforming Economic Diplomacy While Aiding African and Asian...

Debates over foreign aid can seem strangely innocent of history. Economists argue about effectiveness and measurement--how to make aid work. Meanwhile, critics in donor countries bemoan what they see as money wasted on corrupt tycoons or unworthy recipients. What most ignore is the essentially...

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia, "Where Communism goes, hunger follows" was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by...

The content of the right to development -- Origins of the right to development -- The concept of the right to development -- The practice of the right to development -- Economic paradigm -- Macroeconomic institutions -- Macroeconomic policies