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...

Die Dissertation vergleicht systematisch die entwicklungspolitischen Terminologien, Konzeptionen und Praktiken der DDR und der Bundesrepublik zwischen 1957 und 1966, während der Hochphase der so genannten „Hallstein-Doktrin". Dabei wird Entwicklungspolitik als Instrument der...

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...