| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 183 pages) : illustrations |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation |
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Geographies of justice and social transformation.
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| Contents |
"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID -- "In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War -- Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization -- Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror -- Development in reverse: crisis, austerity, and the future of USAID |
| Summary |
"In Development, Security, and Aid Jamey Essex offers a sophisticated study of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), examining the separate but intertwined discourses of geopolitics and geoeconomics. Geopolitics concentrates on territory, borders, and strategic political and military positioning within the international state system. Geoeconomics emphasizes economic power, growth, and connectedness within a global, and supposedly borderless, system. Both discourses have strongly influenced the strategies of USAID and the views of American policy makers, bureaucrats, and business leaders toward international development. Providing a unique geographical analysis of American development policy, Essex details USAID's establishment in 1961 and traces the agency's growth from the Cold War into an era of neoliberal globalization up to and beyond 9/11, the global war on terror, and the looming age of austerity. USAID promotes improvement for millions by providing emergency assistance and support for long-term economic and social development. Yet the agency's humanitarian efforts are strongly influenced, and often trumped, by its mandate to advance American foreign policies. As a site of, a strategy for, and an agent in the making of geopolitics and geoeconomics, USAID, Essex argues, has often struggled to reconcile its many institutional mandates and objectives. The agency has always occupied a precarious political position, one that is increasingly marked by the strong influence of military, corporate, and foreign-policy institutions in American development strategy."--Publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
United States. Agency for International Development.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Agency for International Development fast |
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Economic assistance, American.
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Geopolitics.
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Economic geography.
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geopolitics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Business Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- Economic Development.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Development -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Government & Business.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Structural Adjustment.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Economic assistance, American
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Economic geography
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Geopolitics
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International economic relations
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Diplomatic relations
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United States -- Foreign economic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140052
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United States -- Foreign relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140058
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012024591 |
| ISBN |
9780820345673 |
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0820345679 |
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