Remaking the World

Macekura, Stephen

doi:10.1002/9781119166139.ch29

A Companion to U.S. Foreign Relations 2020

DOI: 10.1002/9781119166139.ch29

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Remaking the World

Stephen Macekura¹

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“…30 Despite hefty goals to promote democracy, US policymakers often had to sacrifice long-term transformation and democratic reforms for short-term stability in implementing development, which was the most likely outcome under a militaristic autocrat. 31 Hence, while Marcos might have been the first, he was certainly not the last populist leader to build his success on the back of US development goals. 32 For the US, while they were able to thwart communism from sprouting in the Philippines, their development tactics did not lead to the economic growth they foresaw.…”

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Politics of Food in the Foreign and Domestic Spheres

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The US is a funny place: you can find a homeless person begging for food, an obese person using food stamps, and a multinational corporation that owns ten different brands of soft drinks all on the same street. For most people, food is something of an afterthought, something to think about only when they are eating out, or making their grocery list; however, food is more than just calories or nutrients, food is also a potent political weapon. Food is so powerful that it was the basis for Nick Cullather's famous article titled "The Foreign Policy of a Calorie." In Cullather's article, he argues that in the early 1900s, 'food' lost its subjective, cultural, character and had evolved into a material instrument of statecraft." Essentially, the calorie is not only an empirical, apolitical term but a tool that was often politicized to further the US' development goals. 1 Based on this sentiment, this paper explores how food was politicized and how the quantifying of food was a form of antipolitics. The 1960s was a juxtaposed decade due to the contrasting essence of foreign development and domestic turmoil. Abroad, US policymakers were allocating millions of dollars to developing new technologies to solve developing nations' domestic problems, all in the hopes that these nations would side with Western capitalism over Sovietbacked communism. At the same time, however, the domestic scene in the US saw the rise of the civil rights movement, tensions between different racial groups, and rising inequality, with almost one-fifth of Americans living in poverty at the time. 2 Antipolitics is defined by Cullather as the exclusion of people with inconvenient claims in development programs. 3 One of the ways Americans practiced antipolitics was by using statistics in development programs to "responsibilize" different tasks to the individual, the market, or the state. 4 For example, obesity and starvation can serve as an indicator that the state has failed to provide basic necessities for its citizens, or can be attributed to a personal failure. The nature of antipolitics within development has been studied extensively, as has the failure of development abroad to bring about positive change to a country's native inhabitants. Literature in the field has evolved over many periods: the first generation of historians studied modernization and development, followed by the second generation of post-Cold War historians who studied the colonialist aspects of the era, and now, recent books seek to provide a holistic view on development without bashing or romanticizing it. 5 Most of this literature, however, focuses on the foreign sphere of development without enough emphasis on the effects of domestic politics. This is a missed opportunity; especially as US policymakers would often use their international experiences as inspiration for domestic solutions. 6 Thus, the goal of this paper is to establish connections between the domestic and foreign spheres of US development through the lens of government policies regarding food in America an...

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State of the field: A comparative analysis of international development studies majors in Canada, the United Kingdom and United States

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2022

J of Intl Development

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Through a critical analysis of undergraduate Development Studies (DS) majors, this study examines the ways that DS departments construct the discipline and contribute to the production of knowledge in the field. By comparing curricular requirements of DS majors at 56 universities, this paper illuminates priorities of DS as identified through teaching. We find that most DS majors have an interdisciplinary focus, require courses in economics and research methods and offer experiential learning opportunities. Limited attention, however, is given to regional or thematic specialisations and second language learning pointing to further work needed towards decolonizing DS curricula.

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Remaking the World

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Politics of Food in the Foreign and Domestic Spheres

Politics of Food in the Foreign and Domestic Spheres

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