Louis A. Picard and Terry F. Buss
Louis Picard and Terry Buss trace the history of US foreign aid from the earliest assumptions of manifest destiny to the present, placing their discussion within the context of broader foreign policy and security goals. Effectively combining policy and normative perspectives, their book serves as a provocative introduction to the subject.
Louis A. Picard is director of the Ford Institute for Human Security at the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs. Terry F. Buss is distinguished professor of public policy at the Heinz College of Carnegie Mellon University.
"A must-read for undergraduate-level courses in foreign aid and foreign policy, [and] valuable to specialists in international relations."—Kai Chen, Journal of Third World Studies
"The most complete historical overview on US foreign aid in the literature."—Revista de Ciencia Política
"A Fragile Balance provides historic context to the evolution of US foreign aid policy as a servant of strategic goals, and also an efficient review of the dynamics of aid policymaking as strategic goals changed over time. Its particular strength is to illuminate the many current institutional 'debates' about US foreign aid created by the strategic watersheds of 1991 and 2001."—E. Philip Morgan, Monterey Institute
"The authors could not be more correct.... Foreign aid implementation is a management problem and the authors are correctly critical of the short-term 'bridging training' preferred by donor agencies."—Governance