Moral Vision in International Politics
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Author_David Halloran Lumsdaine
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Capitalism
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Colombo Plan
Colonialism
Consideration
Criticism
Decolonization
Department for International Development
Developed country
Developing country
Development aid
Development Assistance Committee
Donor
Economic development
Economic growth
Economics
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Foreign policy
Foreign policy of the United States
Funding
Fundraising
Generosity
Gunnar Myrdal
Humanitarianism
Ideology
Income
Institution
Inter-American Development Bank
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
International development
International Development Association
International organization
International relations
Laggard
Least developed country
Marshall Plan
Measures of national income and output
Moral responsibility
Morality
Multilateralism
National interest
National Policy
Non-governmental organization
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Percentage
Personal life
Point Four Program
Policy
Politics
Poverty
Poverty reduction
Public opinion
Public policy
Regime
Self-interest
Social democracy
Soviet Union
Standard of living
Third World
Tying (commerce)
United Nations Development Programme
United States
United States Agency for International Development
United States foreign aid
Welfare
Welfare state
World Bank
World Bank Group
World peace
World War II
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- ISBN 9780691027678
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Feb 1993
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Can moral vision influence the dynamics of the world system? This inquiry into the evolving foreign aid policies of eighteen developed democracies challenges conventional international relations theory and offers a broad framework of testable hypotheses about the ways ethical commitments can help structure global politics. For forty years development assistance has been the largest and steadiest net financial flow to the Third World, far ex- ceeding investment by multinational corporations. Yet fifty years ago aid was unheard of. Investigating this sudden and widespread innovation in the postwar political economy, David Lumsdaine marshals a wealth of historical and statistical evidence to show that aid was based less on donor economic and political interests than on humanitarian convictions and the belief that peace and prosperity could be sustained only within a just international order. Lumsdaine finds the developed countries adhered to rules that, increasingly, favored the neediest aid recipients and reduced their own leverage. Furthermore, the donors most concerned about domestic poverty also gave more foreign aid: the U.S. aid effort was weaker than that of other donors.
Many lines of evidence--how aid changed over time, which donors contributed heavily, where the money was spent, who supported aid efforts--converge to show how humanitarian concerns shaped aid. Seeking to bridge the gap between normative theory and empirical analysis, Lumsdaine's broad comparative study suggests that renewed moral vision is a prerequisite to devising workable institutions for a post-cold war world.
David Halloran Lumsdaine is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University.
