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Provides a comprehensive survey of the U.S. security assistance program from 1947 through fiscal year 1996.

Table of Contents

Tables
Acknowledgments
Glossary of Abbreviations
Introduction
Dimensions and Elements of Security Assistance
U.S. Security Assistance Program: 1946-1977
U.S. Security Assistance Program: 1977-1995
Congress and Security Assistance
Perceptions of the Security Assistance Program
Base-Rights Countries
The Lion's Share: Israel and Egypt
Conclusion: Toward a New Consensus?
Bibliographical Essay
Index

About the Author

DUNCAN L. CLARKE is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University.

DANIEL O'CONNOR is affiliated with the School of International Service, American University

JASON D. ELLIS is affiliated with the School of International Service, American University.

The authors have published extensively on contemporary foreign affairs issues.

Reviews

?[T]his book is an excellent study of the often unacknowledged effect of these programs on both U.S. interests and global stability. Send Guns and Money provides an extremely well detailed, insiders perspective on the decision-making process in the executive and legislative branches, as well as the views that different administrations over the past fifty years held regarding the role that the programs were supposed to play in overall U.S. foreign policy....[T]he authors have provided scholars with a strong tool for understanding part of the background of U.S. foreign policy decicion making and development over the past fifty years.?-NSSQ

"ÝT¨his book is an excellent study of the often unacknowledged effect of these programs on both U.S. interests and global stability. Send Guns and Money provides an extremely well detailed, insiders perspective on the decision-making process in the executive and legislative branches, as well as the views that different administrations over the past fifty years held regarding the role that the programs were supposed to play in overall U.S. foreign policy....ÝT¨he authors have provided scholars with a strong tool for understanding part of the background of U.S. foreign policy decicion making and development over the past fifty years."-NSSQ

"[T]his book is an excellent study of the often unacknowledged effect of these programs on both U.S. interests and global stability. Send Guns and Money provides an extremely well detailed, insiders perspective on the decision-making process in the executive and legislative branches, as well as the views that different administrations over the past fifty years held regarding the role that the programs were supposed to play in overall U.S. foreign policy....[T]he authors have provided scholars with a strong tool for understanding part of the background of U.S. foreign policy decicion making and development over the past fifty years."-NSSQ