Kennedy’s foreign aid extended New Deal state methods globally.

Evidence

The special danger of the New Frontier was that it was literally a global New Deal. Extending Röpke’s meta­phor, one could say that the vines of the state ­were creeping outward through an expanding foreign aid program of government loans, which had drawn in the West German partner by 1960, and the more aggressive use of trade ­unions, including the establishment of the American Institute of ­Free ­Labor Development as part of Kennedy’s Alliance for Pro­gress. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 524

Categorization

• XREF: Relevant to Cold War-era US foreign policy historiography and the ‘New Deal empire’ interpretation. — connects to: Bauer argued foreign aid encouraged state ownership and bureaucratic growth in developing countries — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1319

Broader Connections

• Bauer argued foreign aid encouraged state ownership and bureaucratic growth in developing countries #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1319