Bureaucracy The Marshall Plan And The National Interest

Author : Hadley Arkes
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400867042

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Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest by Hadley Arkes Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Everett Wood
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0520058682

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From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis by Robert Everett Wood Pdf

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349627486

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The Marshall Plan: Fifty Years After by NA NA Pdf

The text focuses first on the impact of the Marshall plan on the organization of political and economic life in post-war Europe and how the plan was perceived in European public opinion. It then examines its role in the construction of European union and in the division of Europe. Finally, the book analyzes the debate about the economic impact of the Marshall Plan in the post-war economic "miracle" in Western Europe. The authors of these chapters are well-known historians, economists, and political scientists, whose original chapters derive from their work on post-war Europe.

Author : Orin Kirshner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317458173

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The Bretton Woods-GATT System by Orin Kirshner Pdf

A collection by founders and early leaders of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), presenting the current thinking on the past, present and future of the postwar system of international finance and trade.

Author : Robert E. Wood
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520301153

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From Marshall Plan to Debt Crisis by Robert E. Wood Pdf

This book traces the evolution of concessional financing to Third World countries from its postwar origins in the Marshall Plan to the debt crisis that engulfed virtually the entire Third World in the early 1980s. It documents the evolution of a system of aid provision, of structured access to concessional external financing. The central focus is on how this structure of access to aid has changed over time and shaped development options an choices in the Third World. From this perspective, the emergence of the debt crisis is closely connected to the role of aid in the world economy. Although the debt crisis had other roots as well, this book elucidates an important set of determinants, generally overlooked, within the systems of aid provision itself. It further seeks to show that the debt crisis defines a new era, not simply a set of discrete and extraordinary events beween, say, Mexico's request for rescheduling in August 1982 and Argentina's coming to terms with the International Monetary Fund in September 1984. The debt crisis has profoundly altered the international environment tha Third Wold countries face, and the legacy of debt will continue to be a central focus of international relations and development choices for years to come. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.

Author : Nicolaus Mills
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781620458686

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Winning the Peace by Nicolaus Mills Pdf

Politicians of every stripe frequently invoke the Marshall Plan in support of programs aimed at using American wealth to extend the nation's power and influence, solve intractable third-world economic problems, and combat world hunger and disease. Do any of these impassioned advocates understand why the Marshall Plan succeeded where so many subsequent aid plans have not? Historian Nicolaus Mills explores the Marshall Plan in all its dimensions to provide valuable lessons from the past about what America can and cannot do as a superpower.

Author : Lawrence S. Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Military assistance, American
ISBN : UIUC:30112105154824

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A Community of Interests by Lawrence S. Kaplan Pdf

Author : Maria Fritsche
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350009349

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The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans by Maria Fritsche Pdf

The US government launched the European Recovery Programme, otherwise known as the 'Marshall Plan', in order to save war-torn Europe from collapse in 1948. Yet while much is known about the economic side of the Marshall Plan, the extensive film campaign that accompanied it has been largely overlooked until now. The American Marshall Plan Film Campaign and the Europeans is the first book to explore the use of the Marshall Plan films and, importantly, their distribution and reception across Europe. The study examines every available film – the 170 that remain from the 200 estimated to have been made – and looks at how they were designed to instil hope, argue the case for economic restructuring and persuade the Europeans of the superiority of the liberal-capitalist system. The book goes on to reason that the films served as a powerful weapon in the cultural Cold War, but that the European audiences were by no means passive victims of the US propaganda effort. Maria Fritsche discusses the Marshall Plan films in the context of countries across Western, Northern and Southern Europe, covering the majority of the 17 European countries that participated in the Plan in the process. The book incorporates 70 images and utilises a vast number of archival sources to explore the strategies the US adopted to sway the minds of the Europeans, the problems they encountered in the process and, not least, the varied responses of the European audiences. It is a vital study for any scholar or student keen to know more about postwar recovery in Europe, the legacy of the Second World War or America's relationship with Europe in the 20th century.

Author : United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Labor
ISBN : MINN:31951D00245393J

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Monthly Labor Review by United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics Pdf

Publishes in-depth articles on labor subjects, current labor statistics, information about current labor contracts, and book reviews.

Author : Ellen Clodfelter Collier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Executive power
ISBN : UCR:31210008763516

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Executive-legislative Consultation on Foreign Policy by Ellen Clodfelter Collier Pdf

Author : Peter Karsten
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 1385 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9780761930976

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Encyclopedia of War and American Society by Peter Karsten Pdf

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Author : Gunter Bischof
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000675849

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Austria in the Nineteen Fifties by Gunter Bischof Pdf

In American history the 1950s are remembered as an affluent and harmonious decade. Not so in Austria. That nation emerged out of World War II with tremendous war-related destruction and with a four-power occupation that would last for ten years until 1955. Massive American economic aid enabled the Austrian economy to start recovering in the 1950s and reorient it from East to West. Unlike the United States, however, general affluence did not set in until the 1960s and 1970s even though Austria's dramatic baby boom enabled it to recover from the demographic catastrophe resulting from manpower losses of World War II., This volume deals with these larger trends. Stephen E. Ambrose discusses American-European relations and sets the larger international context for the Austrian scene. Oilver Rathkolb retraces the changing importance of the Austrian question for the Eisenhower administration. Michael Gehler presents an in-depth analysis of the intriguing question of whether Austria's unification at the price of permanent neutrality might have been a model for Germany. Franz Mathis and Kurt Tweraser look at economic reconstruction and the roles played by both the Austrian public industrial sector and the American Marshall Plan. Karin Schmidlechner looks at the youth culture of the era. Franz Adlgasser shows how Herbert Hoover's food aid was instrumental in the containment of communism in Hungary. Beth Noveck analyzes Austrian political culture of the First Republic from the perspective of Hugo Bettauer. Rolf Steininger presents an insightful historical overview of how the Austro-Italian South Tyrol conflict was resolved after seventy-five years of tension.

Author : United States. Bureau of the Budget. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Public administration
ISBN : UIUC:30112106889980

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Public Management Sources by United States. Bureau of the Budget. Library Pdf

Author : C. Örnek Konu,Ç. Üngör Sunar,Ça?da? Üngör,Cangül Örnek
Publisher : Springer
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137326690

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Turkey in the Cold War by C. Örnek Konu,Ç. Üngör Sunar,Ça?da? Üngör,Cangül Örnek Pdf

This volume examines the cultural and ideological dimensions of the Cold War in Turkey. Departing from the conventional focus on diplomacy and military, the collection focuses on Cold War's impact on Turkish society and intellectuals. It includes chapters on media and propaganda, literature, sports, as well as foreign aid and assistance.

Author : Leif Lewin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674024753

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Democratic Accountability by Leif Lewin Pdf

It is common for political leaders to claim they have no control over bad outcomes. Indeed, they often cite the arguments of political theorists and public intellectuals as to why: history rushes onward oblivious of human will; force and violence overcome political aims; globalization undermines the actions of national leaders; the bureaucracy sabotages their intentions; bad outcomes are often the unintended result of actions. In Democratic Accountability, Leif Lewin examines these reasons and argues that they are unconvincing. He makes his case by describing and analyzing counterexamples in seven cases, including the prevention of a communist takeover in Europe after World War II, the European Union's preventing another European war, and Margaret Thatcher's taming of the bureaucracy in Britain. In a staunch defense of the possibility for meaningful and profound democratic decision making, Lewin finds that, in fact, not only do political leaders exert a good measure of control and therefore can be assigned responsibility, but the meaning of the functioning democracy is that the people hold their leaders accountable.