Security by Other Means Foreign Assistance, Global Poverty, and American Leadership

by Brainard, Lael

• ISBN13: 9780815713623
• ISBN10: 0815713622
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-10
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Summary

In a world transformed by globalization and challenged by terrorism, foreign aid has assumed renewed importance as a foreign policy tool. While the results of more than forty years of development assistance show some successes, foreign aid is currently dispersed between many agencies and branches of government in a manner that formulation and implementation of a coherent, effective strategy. The current political climate is receptive to a transition toward greater accountability and effectiveness in development aid. Because this transition is clearly an imperative but has not yet been comprehensively addressed, the Brookings Institution and the Center for Strategic and International Studies have conducted a joint study that both assesses the current structures of foreign assistance and makes recommendations for efficient coordination. Drawing on expertise from the full range of agencies whose policies affect foreign aid, Security by Other Means examines foreign assistance across four categories reflecting the interests that aid furthers: security, economic, humanitarian, and political. As disparities in the world become more untenable, foreign aid plays a key role in not only the national interests of the U.S. but also the interconnected interests of the international community. This important new volume takes aim at critical questions in a concerted manner by assigning coherence and effectiveness to U.S. foreign aid.Contributors include Owen Barder (Center for Global Development, formerly UK Department for International Development), Charlie Flickner (former Staff Director of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations), Steve Hensch (George Washington University), Steve Morrison (Center for Strategic and International Studies), Steve Radelet (Center for Global Development)

Table of Contents

A unified framework for U.S. foreign assistance	p. 1
Organizing U.S. foreign assistance to meet twenty-first century challenges	p. 33
What role for U.S. assistance in the fight against global HIV/AIDS?	p. 67
Strengthening U.S. development assistance	p. 93
Humanitarian assistance expands in scale and scope	p. 121
Development in the shadow of conflict	p. 161
The changing complexion of security and strategic assistance in the twenty-first century	p. 195
Removing impediments to an effective partnership with Congress	p. 225
Foreign aid reform commissions, task forces, and initiatives : the record from Kennedy to the present	p. 255
Reforming development assistance : lessons from the UK experience	p. 277
Conclusion and recommendations	p. 321
Contributors to the Brookings-CSIS Task Force on Transforming Foreign Assistance in the 21st Century	p. 335
List of legislation, strategic objectives, and organizations involved with foreign assistance	p. 341
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