Description: In an historically informed critique of development assistance, Paul Kingston examines Britain's foreign aid program in the Middle East in the 1940s and 1950s. Focusing on the debates among British experts, their American rivals, and Middle Eastern technocrats over development policy, the author raises important questions about the nature of the development process in the Middle East and Third World generally. The book will be of interest to development practitioners and to scholars in development studies, as well as to students of Middle East and imperial history.
Review Quotes: "This book is highly recommended not only to those who are interested in Britain and the Middle East, but to those concerned about the developing world, particularly the high hopes and deep disappointments associated with U.S. modernizers worldwide from the launching of the Marshall Plan in Europe and President Truman's Point Four Program to the disappointments and devastations in Vietnam. This well researched and argued book is the fourth in Cambridge Middle East Studies, a very promising new series..." Roger Adelson, Historian