The Extension of Ideology: Foundation Support for Intermediate Organizations and Forums
| Autor: | Edward H. Berman |
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| Rok vydání: | 1982 |
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| Zdroj: | Comparative Education Review. 26:48-68 |
| ISSN: | 1545-701X 0010-4086 |
| DOI: | 10.1086/446262 |
| Popis: | Personnel from the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller Foundations have regularly stressed the altruistic nature of their institutions' overseas activities while steadfastly denying that their programs were designed to serve the interests of the United States.' This article, part of a larger project, argues that the foundations' overseas programs and development strategies after 1945 were frequently coordinated by intermediate organizations established or funded by one of the foundations, and that these programs and strategies were neither exclusively humanitarian in purpose nor apolitical--foundation disclaimers notwithstanding. The article also notes how the foundations' surrogates sponsored international conferences that determined the parameters of "responsible" discourse on matters crucial to Third World development. These activities, taken collectively, represented the foundations' major contribution to the cultural Cold War, an important component of United States foreign policy in the post-World War II period.2 The foundations' support for the major objectives of United States foreign policy is not surprising when one considers that foundation officers regularly helped to formulate and implement that policy. The fact that the foundations were, in the words of Henry Ford II, "creatures of capitalism" makes even more understandable the foundations' support for overseas policies that were designed to further United States interests and the system of statesupported capitalism that brought the foundations into existence.3 The arguments below suggest the difficulty of reconciling the foundations' |
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