[PDF] The Marshall Plan Lessons Learned For The 21st Century eBook

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 2008-09-15
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ISBN : 9264044256

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This book examines the historical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic aspects of the European Recovery Program (ERP) - popularly known as the Marshall Plan.

Author : Eliot Sorel
Publisher : Organization for Economic
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9789264044241

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This book examines the historical, diplomatic, economic, and strategic aspects of the European Recovery Program (ERP) -- popularly known as the Marshall Plan -- which brought Europe out of the chaos, hunger, poverty, desperation, and ashes of World War II. In it, authors from a variety of countries who are scholars, policy makers, and business leaders, address applications of the Marshall Plan's lessons learned to the 21st century for capacity building, human and sustainable development, and the role of public, private partnerships in emerging market economies and democratic societies.--Publisher's description.

Author : Bruce D. Jones
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,48 MB
Release : 2017-02-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815729545

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" How the United States helped restore a Europe battered by World War II and created the foundation for the postwar international order Seventy years ago, in the wake of World War II, the United States did something almost unprecedented in world history: It launched and paid for an economic aid plan to restore a continent reeling from war. The European Recovery Plan—better known as the Marshall Plan, after chief advocate Secretary of State George C. Marshall—was in part an act of charity but primarily an act of self-interest, intended to prevent postwar Western Europe from succumbing to communism. By speeding the recovery of Europe and establishing the basis for NATO and diplomatic alliances that endure to this day, it became one of the most successful U.S. government programs ever. The Brookings Institution played an important role in the adoption of the Marshall Plan. At the request of Arthur Vandenberg, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Brookings scholars analyzed the plan, including the specifics of how it could be implemented. Their report gave Vandenberg the information he needed to shepherd the plan through a Republican-dominated Congress in a presidential election year. In his foreword to this book, Brookings president Strobe Talbott reviews the global context in which the Truman administration pushed the Marshall Plan through Congress, as well as Brookings' role in that process. The book includes Marshall's landmark speech at Harvard University in June 1947 laying out the rationale for the European aid program, the full text of the report from Brookings analyzing the plan, and the lecture Marshall gave upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1953. The book concludes with an essay by Bruce Jones and Will Moreland that demonstrates how the Marshall Plan helped shape the entire postwar era and how today's leaders can learn from the plan's challenges and successes. "

Author : United States Department of State
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781500550103

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This curriculum will examine the diplomatic vision of the European Recovery Act (ERA) as initiated and promoted by Secretary of State George C. Marshall. The ERA, which came to be known as the Marshall Plan, is one of the most stellar examples of U.S. diplomacy in 20th century American history. Lessons will explore: diplomatic events surrounding the end of World War II, Marshall's leadership and diplomatic expertise in garnering congressional support for the ERA, the strategies of the U.S. and European diplomats who designed the implementation of the ERA, and the immediate and lasting effects of the Marshall Plan. In addition, each lesson emphasizes the “art and action of diplomacy” and highlights how negotiating skills rest on character and the intent to find peaceful resolutions. Through instruction about the ERA, the curriculum will teach about the work of the Department of State, the art of diplomacy, and the process by which it takes place.

Author : Benn Steil
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 18,49 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198757913

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Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.