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Book SynopsisAs government officials and political activists are becoming increasingly aware, international nonprofit agencies have an important political dimension: although not self-serving, these private voluntary organizations (PVOs) and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) seek social changes of which many of their financial contributors are unaware. As PV
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Tables, pg. ix*Preface, pg. xi*Acknowledgments, pg. xiii*Abbreviations, pg. xv*CHAPTER ONE. Introduction, pg. 1*CHAPTER TWO. Historical Role of Private Foreign Aid as an Extension of North Atlantic Nation-State Interests Abroad, pg. 27*CHAPTER THREE. U.S. Private Foreign Aid since World War II: Exporting the American Dreams of Self-Reliance and Democracy, pg. 45*CHAPTER FOUR. European and Canadian Private Foreign Aid since World War II: Creating New Modes of Political and Economic Influence Abroad in the Post-Colonial Era, pg. 75*CHAPTER FIVE. Current Diversity in Private Foreign Aid Objectives: American Pragmatism versus European Utopianism, pg. 112*CHAPTER SIX. Current Trade-offs among the American Partners: PVOs, the U.S. Government, and Private Donors, pg. 162*CHAPTER SEVEN. Current Trade-offs among the European and Canadian Partners: NGOs, Governments, and Private Donors, pg. 196*CHAPTER EIGHT. Threat or Support for Internal Stability in the Third World? The Impact of Private Foreign Aid in Latin America, pg. 230*CHAPTER NINE. Conclusions, pg. 279*APPENDIX A. Research Methodology, pg. 285*APPENDIX B. U.S. Canadian, and European Nonprofit Organizations in Survey, pg. 291*APPENDIX C. Aid Resources of 205 Largest U.S. (1981), Canadian (1980), and European (1980) Nonprofit Organizations, pg. 294*APPENDIX D.3 Questionnaire Administered to Policymakers in Forty-five U.S., Canadian, and European Nonprofit Organizations Supporting Programs in Latin America (October 1982-September 1983), pg. 307*APPENDIX E. Colombian Nonprofit Organizations in Survey, pg. 312*APPENDIX F. Questionnaire Administered to Policymakers in Thirty-six Colombian Nonprofit Organizations (June-August 1984), pg. 317*Bibliography, pg. 327*Index, pg. 347