Aiding and Abetting – U.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence Trisko Darden

Aiding and AbettingU.S. Foreign Assistance and State Violence\nAuthor(s): Jessica Trisko Darden\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503610231, 978-1503610231\nSynopsis\nThe United States is the world's leading foreign aid donor. Yet there has been little inquiry into how such assistance affects the politics and societies of recipient nations. Drawing on four decades of data on [url] economic and military aid, Aiding and Abetting explores whether foreign aid does more harm than good. Jessica Trisko Darden challenges long-standing ideas about aid and its consequences, and highlights key patterns in the relationship between assistance and violence. She persuasively demonstrates that many of the foreign aid policy challenges the [url] faced in the Cold War era, such as the propping up of dictators friendly to [url] interests, remain salient today. Historical case studies of Indonesia, El Salvador, and So.