Democracy and Political Development: Perspectives from the Indian Experience

In: World politics: a quarterly journal of international relations, Band 21, Heft 3, S. 448-468

Abstract

Foreign aid can be "related" to intervention in many ways. Some argue, with Senator J. W. Fulbright, that aid tends to precede intervention and to increase the probability of intervention. Others would say that aid follows intervention, contending, for example, that American aid to Vietnam was evidence of a prior diplomatic commitment. Still others see aid as an alternative to intervention—if we give aid now we are less likely to have to intervene in the future.