Modernizing Foreign Assistance - Resource Management as an Instrument of Foreign Policy

The United States' foreign assistance program has become an instrument of declining efficacy in foreign policy. The ebbing of Soviet-American competition offers an occasion to restructure U.S. foreign policy objectives and modernize those instruments most likely to support the execution of new foreign policy objectives. This book sets out to identify new approaches to the management of resources in the foreign assistance program that would permit the flexible manipulation of these resources to cope with the fast-breaking pace of international affairs.

This work challenges the generally accepted view of contemporary political realities by explicating the historical roots of the current foreign assistance program and identifying a new approach to foreign assistance through changes in resource management statutory authorities and procedures. It will be of interest to professionals and scholars in foreign affairs, foreign policy, and international relations.

List of contents

Preface
Foreign Assistance Rationales
Programmatic and Country Allocations of Foreign Assistance
Lessons Learned
Increasing the Effectiveness of Foreign Assistance Resources
A Model for the Modernization of the Foreign Assistance Program
Appendix
Bibliography
Additional Sources
Index

About the author

The American Foreign Policy Council is a non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation, located in McLean, Virginia, providing current and comprehensive information on foreign policy issues to decision-makers in government, business, academia, and the media.

Product details

• Authors: Foreign Policy Council American, The Americah Foreign Policy Council
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.1992
• EAN: 9780275942243
• ISBN: 978-0-275-94224-3
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous; USA, Economics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Security, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Aid & relief programmes, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Aid and relief programmes, Politics, Law, and Government: International Relations