Foreign Aid in a Changing World

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Burnell (politics and international studies, U. of Warwick) analyzes permutations in foreign aid over the past 50 years with implications for the future, in the context of economic and political developments<-->as distinctions blur between first, second, and third world nations. He provocatively addresses: right and left-wing debates over whether aid can do good, the quality vs. quantity of aid, why some countries need development assistance, the morality of making assistance contingent upon democratization, and security issues involved in aid to post-communist Russia. Distributed by Taylor & Francis. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.