Arkes, Hadley,

Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the national interest /Hadley Arkes. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1972. - 1 online resource (410 pages). - Princeton Legacy Library .

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented. The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the pol.



9781400867042


United States. Economic Cooperation Administration.
Marshall Plan.


Economic assistance, American.


Electronic Books.

HC240 / .B874 1972