Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War - Hardcover

by Jessica Elkind (Author)

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 Biography

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