Manual

Background Reading:

Lael Brainard and Derek Chollet, eds., Too Poor for Peace: Global Poverty, Conflict and Security in the 21st Century (Brookings Institution, 2007).

Susan B. Epstein and Kennon H. Nakamura, ” State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs: FY2009 Appropriations,” CRS Report for Congress (2008), available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34552.pdf.

Susan B. Epstein and Matthew C. Weed, “Foreign Aid Reform: Studies and Recommendations,” CRS Report to Congress (2008), available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40102.pdf.

Carole Lancaster, George Bush’s Foreign Aid: Transformation or Chaos? (Center for Global Development, 2008), available at http://www.cgdev.org/files/16085_file_Lancaster_WEB.pdf.

Stewart Patrick and Kaysie Brown, “The Pentagon and Global Development: Making Sense of the DoD's Expanding Role” CGD Working Paper 131 (2007), available at http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/14815.

Steven Radelet, “The U.S. Foreign Assistance Spectrum,” (2008), available at: http://www.america.gov/st/foraid-english/2008/June/20080608144337xjyrreP0.9683039.html.

Steve Radelet and Sheila Herrling, "Modernizing U.S. Foreign Assistance for the Twenty-first Century," in The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President, ed. Nancy Birdsall (Washington, D.C.: Center for Global Development 2008), available at: http://www.cgdev.org/content/publications/detail/16560/

Nina M. Serafino, et al., “The Department of Defense Role in Foreign Assistance: Background, Major Issues, and Options for Congress,” CRS Report for Congress (2008), available at http://fpc.state.gov/documents/organization/110406.pdf.

Curt Tarnoff and Marian L. Lawson, “Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policy,” CRS Report for Congress (2009), available at: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R40213.pdf.

Connie Veillette, “Foreign Aid Reform: Issues for Congress and Policy Options,” CRS Report for Congress (2007), available at http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL34243.pdf.