Endorsements

United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy underscores the constitutive relationship between foreign aid as a material resource and the diplomatic discourses and practices that constitute complex bilateral relations between donor and recipient states. Written by two leading scholars of contemporary United States and Chinese foreign policies in the Global South, it offers a pioneering, theoretically conscious, and empirically rich account of the two great powers' grand strategies in the global development sector. The book systematically demonstrates that notwithstanding the differences between the two programs, Chinese and US foreign aid portfolios demonstrate the strategic political and economic interests of the donor government. They do so in two ways: foreign aid programs shape the domestic politics of recipient countries to accommodate the donor government's policy preferences, and they seek to enhance the social reputation and legitimacy of the donor state in the international system. United States and Chinese foreign assistance and diplomacy is the first comprehensive and globally oriented analysis of United States and Chinese foreign aid programs and public diplomacy in the twenty-first century, with a particular focus on their material properties as well as ideational justifications and legitimation narratives. Regilme and Hodzi offer essential insights for scholars of world politics, development studies, and economics, as well as activists, practitioners, and policymakers in foreign aid and governance sectors.