Book contents
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- 1 Trojan Horse or Loyal Partner? West Germany as a Trading Power, Between the United States and the EC
- 2 Emancipation, Regionalization, and Globalization - German-American Trade Relations
- 3 American and German Trade Policy: Between Liberal Multilateralism, Neoprotectionism, and Regional Integration
- 4 The Deutsche Mark and the Dollar: Domestic Price Stability and International Currencies
- 5 Globalization of Entrepreneurial Prospects: The Integration of Capital, Direct and Portfolio Investment, and Multinational Companies in Germany and the United States
- 6 The United States, Germany, and Aid for Developing Countries
- 7 The World Economic Summits: A Difficult Learning Process
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
6 - The United States, Germany, and Aid for Developing Countries
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 January 2013
- Frontmatter
- POLITICS: Détente and Multipolarity: The Cold War and German-American Relations, 1968-1990
- SECURITY: German-American Security Relations, 1968-1990
- ECONOMICS: Cooperation, Competition, and Conflict: Economic Relations Between the United States and Germany, 1968-1990
- 1 Trojan Horse or Loyal Partner? West Germany as a Trading Power, Between the United States and the EC
- 2 Emancipation, Regionalization, and Globalization - German-American Trade Relations
- 3 American and German Trade Policy: Between Liberal Multilateralism, Neoprotectionism, and Regional Integration
- 4 The Deutsche Mark and the Dollar: Domestic Price Stability and International Currencies
- 5 Globalization of Entrepreneurial Prospects: The Integration of Capital, Direct and Portfolio Investment, and Multinational Companies in Germany and the United States
- 6 The United States, Germany, and Aid for Developing Countries
- 7 The World Economic Summits: A Difficult Learning Process
- CULTURE: Culture as an Arena of Transatlantic Conflict
- SOCIETY: German-American Societal Relations in Three Dimensions, 1968-1990
- 1 “1968”: A Transatlantic Event and Its Consequences
- OUTLOOK: America, Germany, and the Atlantic Community After the Cold War
- Index
Summary
Between 1968 and 1990, the United States shed a considerable measure of the “burden” of assistance to developing countries and pressed such rich allies as the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan to assume a larger share. These two countries emerged as leading benefactors to the international development community, with Japan assuming second place behind the United States and the Federal Republic and France in third and fourth places, respectively. Although development issues occasionally provoked disagreements between the United States and the Federal Republic, they could not affect the relationship fundamentally one way or another. Neither their basic policies nor their lists of primary beneficiaries differed significantly. German officials did resent what they perceived to be American dominance of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and they privately grumbled that these international agencies in fact served the national interests of the United States, allowing Germany to “foot the bill” for development “without gaining equivalent political clout.” Meanwhile, Germany’s growing presence in the developing world, both as entrepreneur and benefactor, increased rivalry between the allies. Disagreement over the primacy of “North-South” versus “East-West” relations during the last decades of the Cold War likewise provoked disagreements between Germans and Americans, but this debate also took place within each country. The Cold War’s role in development politics declined during this period but it remained fundamental to German-American relations.
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- The United States and Germany in the Era of the Cold War, 1945–1990A Handbook, pp. 242 - 248Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004