As the world evolves, presenting new challenges to U.S. national security, the patterns of U.S. foreign aid should evolve with it. Nowhere is this truer than in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous and historically most influential state, which is gradually transforming itself from a Western-leaning secular autocracy into an increasingly Islamic state that’s run …
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U.S. foreign aid, which dates back to the early 1950s, is designed to support U.S. national security by helping our friends, pressuring our adversaries, and promoting a safer, more prosperous world. That’s why U.S. aid shifted over the years as our priorities shifted – from winning the Cold War through the 1980s to supporting U.S. …
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Events in Libya and Egypt highlight the potential benefits of United States human rights promotion – both for the U.S. and for people across the world – as well as the downsides of America’s failure to pursue that task. The U.S. promotes human rights – i.e., freedom and democracy – for both moral and selfish …