Arkes Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the National Interest

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-6704-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 410 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented.

The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the political regime. His account of the discussions in the executive branch of the government, the bureaucratic infighting, and the deliberations in Congressional hearings and floor debates also shows how, in the process of making decisions on administration and procedure, the bureaucracy itself affected the aims of the Plan.

Originally published in 1973.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Arkes, Hadley

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
PREFACE, pg. vii
CONTENTS, pg. xi
TABLES, pg. xiii
1. INTRODUCTION, pg. 1
2. BACKGROUND TO THE MARSHALL PLAN: GERMANY AND THE DIVISION OF EUROPE, pg. 19
3. COMMENCEMENT 1947: TOWARD A NEW CONCEPT OF AID, pg. 43
4. CALCULATIONS, pg. 59
5. VANDENBERG, CONGRESS, AND THE NEW DIPLOMACY, pg. 84
6. CENTRALIZATION AND AUTHORITY: THE PRIORITY OF THE MARSHALL PLAN AT HOME, pg. 115
7. THE REACH OF AUTHORITY OVERSEAS I: PLURALISM AND THE GOAL OF INTEGRATION, pg. 132
8. THE REACH OF AUTHORITY OVERSEAS II: UNILATERALISM AND THE CLAIMS OF SELF-INTEREST, pg. 153
9. PRESUMPTIONS AND POLITICAL THEORY, pg. 175
10. THE OPERATING RULES, pg. 201
11. THE DEPENDENT AGENCY, pg. 228
12. A CURE RATHER THAN A PALLIATIVE, pg. 250
13. THE IMPERFECT INTERVENTIONIST, pg. 273
14. THEORY AND COERCION IN THE ECA, pg. 301
15. THE REGIME AND THE NATIONAL INTEREST, pg. 322
16. BUREAUCRACY, REGIME, AND THE MARSHALL PLAN, pg. 345
APPENDIX A, pg. 363
APPENDIX B, pg. 364
APPENDIX C, pg. 365
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 377
INDEX, pg. 387