US Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East [electronic resource] : Aid for Allies / by Anne Mariel Zimmermann.

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US Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East [electronic resource] : Aid for Allies / by Anne Mariel Zimmermann.

9781349950003
1349950009
9781349949991
134994999X

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.

English

1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : 12 illustrations

10.1057/978-1-349-95000-3 doi
99972108295

HF1413 .Z566 2017eb

320.973
320.973

What does US aid "buy" in the Middle East? Drawing on extensive primary source research, this book examines the role and consequences of US aid to three countries in the Middle East. The author argues that the political survival strategies of incumbent leaders in Egypt, Israel, and Jordan shaped not only the type of aid that these countries received from the US, but also its developmental and geopolitical impact. Leaders who relied heavily on distributing selective benefits to their ruling coalitions were more likely to receive forms of US aid that complemented their distributive political economies and undermined the state's developmental capacity, which simultaneously rendered them more dependent on US resources, and more likely to cede fragments of their sovereignty to their major donor. Non-distributive leaders, however, could reap the full benefits of highly discretionary and technologically sophisticated aid, incorporating it into developmental policies that rendered them progressively less dependent on Washington--and better able to say "no" when it was in their best interest.-- Provided by publisher

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