Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy: Lessons for the Next Half-century

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Preface 1. Foreign Aid Priorities: Goals for the Twenty-first Century, Louis A. Picard and Robert Groelsema Part 1. Foreign Aid and Foreign Policy Debates 2. Foreign Aid and Security: A Renewed Debate? Lawrence Korb 3. Foreign Aid in the Twenty-first Century: What Purposes? Carol Lancaster 4. Foreign Aid in the National Interest: The Importance of Democracy and Governance, Larry Diamond 5. Foreign Aid in Comparative Perspective: Regime Dynamics and Donor Interests, Steven W. Hook Part 2. Case Studies in Foreign Aid 6. Building Local Governance in Iraq: Limits and Lessons, Derick W. Brinkerhoff 7. Foreign Aid and South Asia: The Case of Pakistan, Robert LaPorte, Jr. 8. Donors, Public Sector Reform and Decentralization: Democracy and Civil Society in Ghana, Louis A. Picard, Robert Groelsema, and Ted Lawrence 9. Why Aid to Haiti Failed - and How to Do It Better Next Time, Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner 10. USAID and Eastern Europe: Something Old, Something New, Kevin F.F. Quigley 11. Post-Millennium U.S. Foreign Aid for Africa: Reconciling Freedom and Security, Theirs and Ours, John W. Harbeson Part 3. Organizational Dynamics and Foreign Aid Policy 12. Transformational Trends in Aid Government and Democracy, W. Haven North and Jeanne Foote North 13. Higher Education, Capacity Building, and Foreign Aid: Lessons Learned, Ralph Smuckler and Louis A. Picard 14. NGOs in the Foreign Aid System, Paul Nelson 15. The Millennium Challenge Account: An Early Appraisal, Terry F. Buss and Adam Gardner 16. Deepening Local Democratic Governance: Connecting the Dots in Sub-Saharan Africa, John W. Harbeson Part 4. International Assistance and Development 17. Diasporas and Development: What Role for Foreign Aid? Jennifer M. Brinkerhoff 18. Remittances, Foreign Aid, and Developing Countries, Jose Uribe and Terry F. Bu 19. Aid and Development: A Conceptual Perspective from Development Economics, Siddharth Chandra 20. Mainstreaming of Democracy and Governance in Foreign Assistance, Jennifer Windsor About the Editors and Contributors Index.