RT Article
T1 The Bush Administration, Debt Relief, and the War on Terror: Reforming the International Development System as Part of the Neoconservative Project
JF Social justice
VO 35
IS 3
SP 49
OP 65
A1 Williams, Matthew S. 1974-
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747156809
AB Part of a special issue on war, crisis, and transition. The writer examines the rationale for the Bush administration's debt relief policies. He notes an apparent paradox, whereby the administration pushed for full debt cancellation for the world's most heavily indebted poor countries at the same time as it embraced a developmental agenda intended to tighten donors' regulatory discipline over these same countries through the creation of ex ante performance-based standards for aid. The writer draws on an analysis of White House testimony to Congress from 1999 to 2005 to argue that these seemingly contradictory policies fit together coherently. He demonstrates that the Bush administration's reforms are, in fact, an element of a distinctive neoconservative foreign policy.
K1 World Bank
K1 Bush, George W. (George Walker), 1946-
K1 Counterterrorism
K1 International Relations
K1 Decision making in international relations
K1 Finance
K1 Developing Countries
K1 War on Terrorism, 2001-2009
K1 Economic assistance, American