The Suspension of Foreign Aid: A Macro-Analysis

Abstract

The 1977 furor in the United States over Korea-gate and the related threat by Congress to suspend economic aid if Korean officials were not sent to the United States to testify along with the 1978 decision to resume aid to Turkey even though the original issue precipitating its suspension had not been resolved raise the question of the efficacy of using the suspension of aid as a tactic to pressure other countries into acceding to American demands. Previous studies on foreign aid have cited selected cases to illustrate either that it is or is not an effective