Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War

In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance-the attempt to strengthen alliances by providing technology, financial aid, and administrators to fledgling states in order to disseminate and inculcate American values and practices

Author: Jessica Elkind
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 06/17/2016
Pages: 310
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780813165837

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2016

About the Author

Jessica Elkind is associate professor of history at San Francisco State University.

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