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Global Compassion Private Voluntary Organizations and U. S. Foreign Policy Since 1939

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ISBN-10: 0195371178

ISBN-13: 9780195371178

Edition: 2009

Authors: Rachel M. McCleary

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Global Compassion is an ambitious account of the relationship between private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and the US federal government from 1939-2005. After World War II, humanitarian aid became a key component of US foreign policy and has grown steadily ever since. Organizations like Oxfam, CARE, World Vision, and Catholic Relief Services are known the world over; however, little is known about the relationship between these private agencies and the federal government, and how truly influential these organizations can be in the realm of foreign policy. Here, Rachel McCleary provides the first truly comprehensive study of PVOs and their complex, often-fraught interaction with the…    
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Book details

List price: $67.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/2/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.57" long x 0.73" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

List of Figures
List of Tables
Dispelling Common Perceptions
Questions and Issues
Overview of the Data Set
Trends in PVOs, 1939-2005
Points of Contention between PVOs and the Federal Government
World War II: U.S. Federal Government Consolidation and Regulation of Humanitarian Assistance, 1939-45
American Neutrality, 1939-41
America at War, 1941-43
Consolidating the War Relief Effort, 1943-45
Comparison of Religious and Secular Agencies
From Relief to Reconstruction
The Beginning of the Cold War and the Promotion of Economic Development, 1946-59
The Rise and Fall of the Ethnically Oriented PVOs
Government-PVO Coordination and Cooperation, 1946-48
Coordinating Jewish Fund-Raising
Containment and Reconstruction, 1948-54
The Cold War and the Rise of Catholic Relief Services
Continuing the Pattern of Relief Aid
The Internationalization of American Aid
Breakdown of Secular PVOs by Subtype
Permanent Humanitarian Uses of Food
Population Control and Food Production
PVO Neutrality and the Vietnam War
Protestant PVOs and the Rise of Evangelicals
The Security of Israel and Jewish PVOs
PVOs and the Secularizing of American Society
The Golden Age of PVO-State Relations
The PVO-State Partnership
The Ethiopian Famine and the Maturation of the PVOs
PVOs as Policy Advocates
PVOs as Transnational Agencies
Religious Agencies
From Relief to Development
Federal Decentralization and the Militarization of Foreign Humanitarian Aid
Shift in Foreign Aid Trends
The Political Maturation of PVOs
Division among the Evangelicals
Central America and "Low-Intensity Conflict"
P.L. 480 and the Quasi-Governmental PVO
The Parallel Humanitarian Role of the U.S. Military
Sustainable Development
The Commercialization of Foreign Aid
"Reforming" USAID and the Loss of Competitiveness
Commercialization of Aid
How to Implement Aid
National Security and Foreign Aid
The Evolving Role of the Military
Disbanding the PVO Club
Transformational Development
Foreign Assistance Reform
Food Aid
The Future of Foreign Aid
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index