description: This study of executive-branch decision making explores the conflict between the diplomatic an developmental mandates of U.S. foreign-aid program on two levels. First, a given amount of programming funded for a country must be divided among various activities, some of which are directed toward long-term development while others encourage short-term diplomatic cooperation with U.S. initiatives. Second, individual federal agencies favor certain types of aid and favored programs at the expense of others. Dr. Rossiter examines this conflict in a case study of the State Department's use of foreign-aid programs to induce the "Front-line" states of southern Africa to cooperate with President Carter's initiative to resolve the civil war in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe. According to Dr. Rossiter, the Agency for International Development (AID) lost control over foreign aid in the region to the State Department because the constituency for development objectives was relatively weak, both inside and outside the U.S. government. He concluded by discussing the implications of AID's unsuccessful attempt to free itself from the State Department's control during the reorganization of the foreign-aid bureaucracy under President Carter.
language: English
title: The Bureaucratic Struggle For Control Of U.s. Foreign Aid: Diplomacy Vs. Development In Southern Africa
titlecomplete: The Bureaucratic Struggle For Control Of U.s. Foreign Aid: Diplomacy Vs. Development In Southern Africa
publisher: Westview Press