Betraying the National Interest
- ISBN-10
- 0802100120
- ISBN-13
- 9780802100122
- Category
- Economic assistance
- Pages
- 180
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1987
- Authors
- Kevin Danaher, Frances Moore Lappé, Rachel Schurman
Description
Is U.S. foreign aid counterproductive? Yes, if you believe this vigorously argued analysis. According to the authors, development assistance and food aid take a back seat to political and military goals (in Egypt and Israel), and this country props up tyrants (Marcos and Mobutu) as anti-Soviet bulwarks, with predictable results. Dominated by dogma and ideology, foreign aid serves neither recipients nor Americans. The authors propose radical changes in foreign policy. There is much food for thought in this provocative treatise, but readers will have to draw their own conclusions.
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