Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest / / Hadley Arkes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• VerfasserIn: Arkes, Hadley,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1973
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1251
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented.The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the political regime. His account of the discussions in the executive branch of the government, the bureaucratic infighting, and the deliberations in Congressional hearings and floor debates also shows how, in the process of making decisions on administration and procedure, the bureaucracy itself affected the aims of the Plan.Originally published in 1973.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- Part I -- 2. BACKGROUND TO THE MARSHALL PLAN: GERMANY AND THE DIVISION OF EUROPE -- 3. COMMENCEMENT 1947: TOWARD A NEW CONCEPT OF AID -- 4. CALCULATIONS -- 5. VANDENBERG, CONGRESS, AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY -- 6. CENTRALIZATION AND AUTHORITY: THE PRIORITY OF THE MARSHALL PLAN AT HOME -- 7. THE REACH OF AUTHORITY OVERSEAS I: PLURALISM AND THE GOAL OF INTEGRATION -- 8. THE REACH OF AUTHORITY OVERSEAS II: UNILATERALISM AND THE CLAIMS OF SELF-INTEREST -- Part II -- 9. PRESUMPTIONS AND POLITICAL THEORY -- 10. THE OPERATING RULES -- 11. THE DEPENDENT AGENCY -- 12. A CURE RATHER THAN A PALLIATIVE -- 13. THE IMPERFECT INTERVENTIONIST -- 14. THEORY AND COERCION IN THE ECA -- 15. THE REGIME AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST -- 16. BUREAUCRACY, REGIME, AND THE MARSHALL PLAN -- APPENDIX A -- APPENDIX B -- APPENDIX C -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX