{"product_id":"us-assistance-development-and-hierarchy-anne-mariel-zimmermann-9781349949991","title":"Us Assistance, Development, and Hierarchy in the Middle East: Aid for Allies","description":"\"What does US aid 'buy' in the Middle East? Drawing on extensive primary source research, this book examines the role and consequences of US aid to three countries in the Middle East. The author argues that the political survival strategies of incumbent leaders in Egypt, Israel, and Jordan shaped not only the type of aid that these countries received from the US, but also its developmental and geopolitical impact. Leaders who relied heavily on distributing selective benefits to their ruling coalitions were more likely to receive forms of US aid that complemented their distributive political economies and undermined the state's developmental capacity, which simultaneously rendered them more dependent on US resources, and more likely to cede fragments of their sovereignty to their major donor. Non-distributive leaders, however, could reap the full benefits of highly discretionary and technologically sophisticated aid, incorporating it into developmental policies that rendered them progressively less dependent on Washington\"and better able to say 'no' when it was in their best interest.\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Anne Mariel Zimmermann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 134994999X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781349949991\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Palgrave MacMillan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Anne Mariel Zimmermann","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48088081957119,"sku":"9781349949991","price":129.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5df23db5-4349-4476-81fe-7062afc6f3e4.jpg?v=1769103006","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/us-assistance-development-and-hierarchy-anne-mariel-zimmermann-9781349949991","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}