Transplanting the Great Society: Lyndon Johnson and Food for Peace"Uses recently declassified sources to trace the successes and limitations of the Johnson administration's efforts to use food aid as a diplomatic tool during the Cold War, both to gain support for U.S. policies and to reward or punish allies such as Israel, India, and South Vietnam"--Provided by publisher. |
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... Foreign assistance constituted the seeds of the internationalized Great Society, although the practice of extending such aid certainly predated the Johnson administration. Broadly construed, the term foreign aid suggests a myriad of ...
... Foreign assistance constituted the seeds of the internationalized Great Society, although the practice of extending such aid certainly predated the Johnson administration. Broadly construed, the term foreign aid suggests a myriad of ...
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... foreign policy during the cold war is complete without understanding the role of PL-480 within this context. Public Law 480, signed into law in 1954 and known as Food for Peace, served as the backbone for a permanent American food aid ...
... foreign policy during the cold war is complete without understanding the role of PL-480 within this context. Public Law 480, signed into law in 1954 and known as Food for Peace, served as the backbone for a permanent American food aid ...
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... aid shipments to the ability of a nation to improve its own agricultural ... foreign objectives . In their broad surveys of midcentury agricultural ... aid as humanitarian assistance , as 8. Memorandum , Freeman to Theodore Sorenson ...
... aid shipments to the ability of a nation to improve its own agricultural ... foreign objectives . In their broad surveys of midcentury agricultural ... aid as humanitarian assistance , as 8. Memorandum , Freeman to Theodore Sorenson ...
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... Foreign aid programs make limited appearances in some of these works, whereas in others aid programs similar to Food for Peace constitute the framework for analy- sis. What is unique about my study is that it establishes the importance ...
... Foreign aid programs make limited appearances in some of these works, whereas in others aid programs similar to Food for Peace constitute the framework for analy- sis. What is unique about my study is that it establishes the importance ...
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... aid program on a global scale . Ulti- mately , the White House maintained control of the program's goals and ... foreign policy goals . The Indian PL - 480 agreements mitigated famine and kick - started agricultural reform , but the United ...
... aid program on a global scale . Ulti- mately , the White House maintained control of the program's goals and ... foreign policy goals . The Indian PL - 480 agreements mitigated famine and kick - started agricultural reform , but the United ...
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A Time to Reap 19651969 | 74 |
India 19641968 | 106 |
Israel 19641968 | 147 |
Vietnam 19641968 | 175 |
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