Development, security, and aid : geopolitics and geoeconomics at the U.S. Agency for International Development / Jamey Essex.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Essex, Jamey, 1977-

Series:

Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation

Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic assistance, American.

Geopolitics.

Economic geography.

United States--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States. Agency for International Development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

"One-half of 1%": geopolitics, geoeconomics, and USAID

"In the world for keeps": from the Marshall Plan to the Vietnam War

Geoeconomics ascendant: development, interdependence, and neoliberalization

Two decades of neoliberalization: from the Cold war to the War on Terror

Development in reverse: crisis, austerity, and the future of USAID.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781299132214

1299132219

9780820345673

0820345679

OCLC:

827336862