Moral Vision in International Politics : : The Foreign Aid Regime, 1949-1989 / / David Halloran Lumsdaine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• VerfasserIn: Lumsdaine, David Halloran,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (376 p.)

Can moral vision influence the dynamics of the world system? This inquiry into the evolving foreign aid policies of eighteen developed democracies challenges conventional international relations theory and offers a broad framework of testable hypotheses about the ways ethical commitments can help structure global politics. For forty years development assistance has been the largest and steadiest net financial flow to the Third World, far ex- ceeding investment by multinational corporations. Yet fifty years ago aid was unheard of. Investigating this sudden and widespread innovation in the postwar political economy, David Lumsdaine marshals a wealth of historical and statistical evidence to show that aid was based less on donor economic and political interests than on humanitarian convictions and the belief that peace and prosperity could be sustained only within a just international order. Lumsdaine finds the developed countries adhered to rules that, increasingly, favored the neediest aid recipients and reduced their own leverage. Furthermore, the donors most concerned about domestic poverty also gave more foreign aid: the U.S. aid effort was weaker than that of other donors. Many lines of evidence--how aid changed over time, which donors contributed heavily, where the money was spent, who supported aid efforts--converge to show how humanitarian concerns shaped aid. Seeking to bridge the gap between normative theory and empirical analysis, Lumsdaine's broad comparative study suggests that renewed moral vision is a prerequisite to devising workable institutions for a post-cold war world.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- PART I The Argument -- CHAPTER ONE Do Morals Matter in International Politics? -- CHAPTER TWO Why Was There Any Foreign Aid at All? -- PART II The Evidence -- CHAPTER THREE Where the Money Went: Who Were the Main Recipients of Aid? -- CHAPTER FOUR Who Paid the Bill: Similarities and Differences among the Donors -- CHAPTER FIVE Who Advocated Aid: Supporters and Opponents of Development Assistance -- CHAPTER SIX What Prepared the Way: Historical Antecedents of -- CHAPTER SEVEN How Aid Grew: Development of Regular Aid Programs -- CHAPTER EIGHT How Aid Changed: Ongoing Reform in the Foreign Aid Regime -- PART III Conclusion -- CHAPTER NINE How Shall We Then Live? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index