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Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development

2013 University of Georgia Press ;ISBN: 9780820342474 ;ISBN: 0820342475 ;ISBN: 9780820345673 ;ISBN: 0820345679 ;ISBN: 9780820344546 ;ISBN: 0820344540 ;EISBN: 9780820345673 ;EISBN: 0820345679 ;LCCallNum: HC60.E736 2013

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    Development, Security, and Aid: Geopolitics and Geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Author: Essex, Jamey ; Cowen, Deborah ; Wright, Melissa W ; Heynen, Nik
  • Subjects: Borders ; Cold War ; Developing & Emerging Countries ; Development Policy ; Development Programs ; Economic assistance, American ; Economic geography ; Emergencies ; Foreign economic relations ; Foreign Policy ; Foreign relations ; Geopolitics ; Globalization ; Human Geography ; International Relations ; POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Population Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; United States ; United States. Agency for International Development ; War
  • Description: 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: University of Georgia Press
  • Creation Date: 2013
  • Format: 208
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780820342474
    ISBN: 0820342475
    ISBN: 9780820345673
    ISBN: 0820345679
    ISBN: 9780820344546
    ISBN: 0820344540
    EISBN: 9780820345673
    EISBN: 0820345679
    LCCallNum: HC60.E736 2013
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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