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American foreign aid can be a powerful tool to both to improve lives of people in the developing world, strengthen US allies, and advance the United States' national interest, but it is limited by statutory constraints, bureaucracy, congressional micro-management, and competing visions of what it can and should accomplish. This book explores these limitations – and what can be done about them - through a close analysis of the five “clashes of development”.
The clash of theory and practice discusses the major theories of development, and the influence these have had on the design of aid programs. The clash of development and diplomacy examines the dangers of coopting development programs for purely diplomatic goals. The clash of the counter-bureaucracy describes how quantitative performance indicators and compliance systems have come to dominate USAID at the expense of good development practice. The clash of development and politics shows the dangers of letting domestic agendas drive development decisions, of congressional oversight, and the clash of development and defense demonstrates how using development programs particularly in war zones where the US military is fighting to achieve tactical outcomes leads to programs that are at best ineffective, often fail and are unsustainable. The book is rounded out with chapters discussing how these clashes impact key aspects of implementing development programs, including aid allocation decisions, the selection partner organizations, the management of programs in the field, and risk management. The book concludes with a chapter on what can be done to improve American foreign aid and a focus on why foreign aid is so important when many detractors proclaim “America first.”
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Table of Contents
1. Foreign Aid: Past, Present, and Future
2. The Dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development
3. The Unintended Consequences of the Dismantling of USAID
4. The Clash of Development Theory and Practice: The Schools of Development and the Demand for Quick, Visible, and Measurable Results
Part II: Relative Autonomy from other Federal Agencies?
5. The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development: The Spread of the Obsessive Measurement Disorder
6. The Clash of the Counter-bureaucracy and Development II: The Industrialization of Development
7. The Clash of Diplomacy and Development: The Benefits and Dangers of Using Aid for Diplomatic Purposes
8. The Clash of Politics and Development: The Rise of the Foreign Aid Industrial Complex, Congress and Ideology
9. The Clash of Defense and Development: The Militarization of International Development?
10. Afghanistan Reconstruction and Development: A Case Study in the Five Clashes
Part III: The Operating Systems to Implement Programs
11. Buying Development: Business Systems, Allocating Aid, Managing Risk, and Choosing Partners
12. Conclusion: The Collapse and Rebirth of the International Aid Order: Consolidation, Decentralization, and Deregulation
Product details
| Published | Oct 15 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 9798216277552 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 30 b&w figures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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