Trade and Aid Eisenhower's Foreign Economic Policy, 1953-1961 / Burton I. Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaufman, Burton Ira.

Series:

Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 100th ser., 1.

The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science ; 100th ser., 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Foreign economic relations.

United States.

Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xiv, 279 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Johns Hopkins University Press 2019

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book outlines the transition of U.S. foreign policy during the Eisenhower administration. In the years leading up to Eisenhower's election, America's predominant foreign economic program was based on the concept of "trade not aid," which deemphasized foreign aid and relied instead on liberalized world trade and the encouragement of private foreign investment to assure world economic growth. When Eisenhower took office in 1953, he embraced this doctrine. However, as problems in the Third World worsened, it became clear to Eisenhower and other architects of American foreign policy that trade and private investment were insufficient solutions to the economic woes of developing nations. In 1954 Eisenhower began to embrace economic aid as a core axis of his foreign economic policy. Burton I. Kaufman contextualizes Eisenhower's foreign policy leadership in the ongoing historical evaluation of Eisenhower's leadership prowess. He evaluates the outcomes of the Eisenhower administration's trade and aid program, arguing that developing countries were worse off by the time Eisenhower left office.

Contents:

Introduction

Trade Not Aid, 1953-1954

The Transition, 1954-1955

The Soviet Economic Challenge, 1955-1956

Trade, Antitrust, and Oil Policy, 1955-1957

The Foreign-Aid Inquiry and Establishment of the Development Loan Fund, 1957

Trade and Aid: Reciprocal Trade, 1957-1958

Trade and Aid: Mutual Security, 1957-1958

Multilateralism and Regionalism, 1958-1959

The Balance-of-Payments Problem and Foreign Economic Policy, 1959-1960

the Final Fight over Foreign Aid, 1960-1961.

Notes:

The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No derivatives 4.0 International License

Open access edition supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities / Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Humanities Open Book Program.

Originally published as Johns Hopkins Press in 1982

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-267) and index.

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ISBN:

0-8018-2623-3

1-4214-3572-1

OCLC:

1127894375