Aid Under Fire: Nation Building and the Vietnam War

by Jessica Elkind

In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development assistance-the attempt to strengthen alliances by providing technology, financial aid, and administrators to fledgling states in order to disseminate...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813165830
• ISBN13: 9780813165837
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary