David Halloran Lumsdaine is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. 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...

"As the top-ranking official at the U.S. Department of Defense in charge of economic rebuilding, Brinkley and his organization of hundreds of business volunteers struggled against bureaucratic policies to revolutionize foreign aid by leveraging America's strength--its private sector. In doing so, his team demonstrated success in the midst of failure, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs in areas long written off by the civilian bureaucracy as...

Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.

Explores the mismanagement of American aid to Afghanistan and how these taxpayer dollars have wound up in the coffers of the Taliban, effectively losing the war for the United States.

Critical analysis of Plan Colombia, a multibillion dollar US counter narcotics initiative. Plan Colombia was an ambitious, multibillion-dollar program of American aid to the country of Colombia to fight that nation's recreational drug industry. First signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, the program would, over a twelve-year period, provide the Colombian government with more money than every other country in the region. But how successful...