After receiving at least US$20 billion in aid for reconstruction and development over the past 60 years, Haiti has been and remains a fragile state, one of the worse globally. The reasons for aid failure are legion but mostly relate to highly dysfunctional Haitian regimes, sometimes destructive...

Explores the history of American foreign aid, discussing its failures and successes and placing aid in the context of larger security and foreign policy goals from the eighteenth to the twenty-first centuries