Title Aiding and abetting : U.S. foreign assistance and state violence / Jessica Trisko Darden

Published Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource Contents Introduction : aiding freedom : human rights and U.S. foreign assistance -- Abetting violence : the coercive effect of foreign aid -- Patterns of foreign aid and state violence -- Indonesia : arming and expanding -- El Salvador : buying guns and butter -- South Korea : constraining coercion -- Aiding and abetting in the 21st century -- Conclusion : can "do no harm" be done? Summary The United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on U.S. economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the U.S. faced in the Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to U.S. interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of Indonesia, El Salvador, and South Korea illustrate how aid can uphold human freedoms or propagate human rights abuses. Aiding and Abetting encourages both advocates and critics of foreign assistance to reconsider its political and social consequences by focusing international aid efforts on the expansion of human freedom Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Human rights -- Developing countries Political persecution -- Developing countries State-sponsored terrorism -- Developing countries Military assistance, American -- Developing countries Economic assistance, American -- Developing countries POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General. Economic assistance, American Human rights Military assistance, American Political persecution State-sponsored terrorism Entwicklungshilfe Entwicklungspolitik Gewalt Konflikt Militärhilfe Politik Menschenrecht Auswirkung Wirtschaftshilfe Empfängerland Developing countries Form Electronic book LC no. 2019022027 ISBN 1503611000 9781503611009

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