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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... humanitarian assistance programs often deployed in concert with one another or separately. In the years fol- lowing World War II, the United States used the Mutual Security Acts and other Military Assistance Programs to furnish allies ...
... humanitarian assistance programs often deployed in concert with one another or separately. In the years fol- lowing World War II, the United States used the Mutual Security Acts and other Military Assistance Programs to furnish allies ...
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... humanitarian impulse of U.S. policy, influenced by a Judeo-Christian tradition of assist- ing the less fortunate. Freeman underscored the importance of food aid, noting that “ there is something about food and its. 7. Wallerstein, Food ...
... humanitarian impulse of U.S. policy, influenced by a Judeo-Christian tradition of assist- ing the less fortunate. Freeman underscored the importance of food aid, noting that “ there is something about food and its. 7. Wallerstein, Food ...
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... humanitarian assistance , as 8. Memorandum , Freeman to Theodore Sorenson , December 23 , 1963 , Chronological File , Box 1 , January 1 – June 30 , 1964 , Orville L. Freeman Personal Papers , Collections of Per- sonal and Organizational ...
... humanitarian assistance , as 8. Memorandum , Freeman to Theodore Sorenson , December 23 , 1963 , Chronological File , Box 1 , January 1 – June 30 , 1964 , Orville L. Freeman Personal Papers , Collections of Per- sonal and Organizational ...
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... humanitarian perspective and as a tool of U.S. for- eign policy . In order to analyze the development of the Food for Peace program as a component of the Great Society , I have relied on both previously unavailable materials and ...
... humanitarian perspective and as a tool of U.S. for- eign policy . In order to analyze the development of the Food for Peace program as a component of the Great Society , I have relied on both previously unavailable materials and ...
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... humanitarian extension of the Great Society on a global scale, and a significant tool to advance U.S. cold war foreign policy objectives, took more than a decade over three presi- dential administrations. It also took the vision ...
... humanitarian extension of the Great Society on a global scale, and a significant tool to advance U.S. cold war foreign policy objectives, took more than a decade over three presi- dential administrations. It also took the vision ...
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A Time to Reap 19651969 | 74 |
India 19641968 | 106 |
Israel 19641968 | 147 |
Vietnam 19641968 | 175 |
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