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Benevolent Empire - U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed (Paperback)
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Benevolent Empire - U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed (Paperback)
Series: Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
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Stephen Porter's Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid
initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American
people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War,
opening an important window onto the "short American century."
Chronicling both international relief efforts and domestic
resettlement programs aimed at dispossessed people from Europe,
Latin America, and East Asia, Porter asks how, why, and with what
effects American actors took responsibility for millions of victims
of war, persecution, and political upheaval during these decades.
Diverse forces within the American state and civil society directed
these endeavors through public-private governing arrangements, a
dynamic yielding both benefits and liabilities. Motivated by a
variety of geopolitical, ethical, and cultural reasons, these
advocates for humanitarian action typically shared a desire to
portray the United States, to the American people and international
audiences, as an exceptional, benevolent world power whose objects
of concern might potentially include any vulnerable people across
the globe. And though reality almost always fell short of that
idealized vision, Porter argues that this omnivorous philanthropic
energy helped propel and steer the ascendance of the United States
to its position of elite global power. The messaging and
administration of refugee aid initiatives informed key dimensions
of American and international history during this period, including
U.S. foreign relations, international humanitarianism and human
rights, global migration and citizenship, and American political
development and social relations at home. Benevolent Empire is thus
simultaneously a history of the United States and the world beyond.
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