Economic Coercion And U.s. Foreign Policy: Implications Of Case Studies From The Johnson Administration

by Sidney Weintraub

Overview

Why do governments-and especially the U.S. government-so frequently attempt to use economic means to coerce other countries on a one-on-one basis when critics almost universally argue that such pressure rarely works? This question forms the basis of discussion for Professor Weintraub and seven graduate students at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Pu

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429724794
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/01/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Sidney Weintraub is Dean Rusk Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to coming to the LBJ School in 1976 he had a distinguished career with the U.S. Department of State.

David Berteau, Carolyn Castore, John Craddock, Mark David, Robert Kleeman, Mark Richardson, and Jay Schenirer are graduate students at the LBJ School who worked with Professor Weintraub on this study.

Table of Contents

Also of Interest -- Preface -- Theory and Analysis -- Introduction -- Current Theory -- Common Threads in Case Studies -- Reformulated Theory -- Policy Conclusions -- Case Studies -- The United States and Indonesia: A Study of Economic Pressure-September 1963-October 1965 -- Suspension of P.L. 480 Aid to the United Arab Republic in 1965 -- The United States and India: The Use of Food to Apply Economic Pressure-1965-67 -- United States Military Assistance to India: A Study of Economic Pressure-November 1963-November 1964 -- The Harriman-Solomon Mission and the 1966 Chilean Copper Agreement -- United States-South African Relations-1962-67