>> on history bookshelf here from the country's best-known american history writers of the past decade every saturday. watch any of our programs anytime. visit our website c-span.org/history. you're watching american history tv all weekend. next, the development from the u.s. and soviet union in a betterr competition to relations in that country. this event was hosted by the society for historians of american foreign relations. it is 50 minutes. >> good afternoon. i would like to welcome you here

today. i can say on behalf of the entire council we are so .hrilled to see you we are inspired by the energy you can feel in this room and the brilliant ideas that have been circulating through the panels in the hallways. your presence here today inside this room on such a beautiful california day, the doors are locked by the way, it is a testament to our quality of -- collective regard for the speaker today. engerman serves as chair of the department's history. did work inon history at records roy gardner

who is here with us today. atearned his phd in history the university of california at berkeley where he worked with david oliver. first articles published by harvard university class in 2003 2 brought a claim. lauded as original, imagine will be conceived and important, the book of course one of the book award and the akira international book award. his second book, know your enemy , the rise and fall of america soviet expert was published in 2009 eliminating subjects between academic expertise and national security.

the book was widely praised for its extraordinary range and depth. includescholarship many articles. it has been recognized through awards in fellowship from the , and many guggenheim more. if you could publish his tv it would count in your publications. it is quite something. david has been important to safer. he surveyed in many roles including program chair, diplomatic history and other functions before his recent election as vice president and president of shaper. important on the issue of our relationship with academic history writ large.

ago,cipating and while discussions about internationalizing american has three convened by tom binger about the need to set u.s. history in the context of the world. it was david in those discussions who insisted no effort to invent u.s. history with an world history could be successful without the history of american foreign relations. we have the privilege of caring about the next chapter in david intellectual journey as he has inen his expertise in india a new book project planning for plenty, the cold war in india which will be published by harvard university press. please join me in welcoming david engerman. [applause]

prof: engerman -- >> it rarely happens that i'm without words. it has happened now. i'm going to look down and start reading. a dozen years after president truman, american programs forming with an eye for economic aid. foreign aid was baffling. it should be a warning for all of us to stay away. i am going to ignore that hising and suggest here consternation was related to the fact foreign aid helped create a new kind of global politics

chock-full of interest he found so compelling and question the national union that constituted the basis of international relations. this development politics. i use the term to describe the dynamics of economic aid that shaped donor and recipient nations. including dams, power lands, experimental farms. it's the arrival of the durations of power. officials, politicians and businesses use foreign aid to advance their own economic interests. development aid ultimately function not just as a tool of foreign policy but shaped patterns of relations between nations.

it was premised on the most optimistic of scenarios that structural inequality could be reduced through concerted action. promises,ith high future independence, prosperity, political stability. but officials celebrated their a programs as means to these and. getting developing countries on their own two feet. yet the world that development made never even approached this rosy scenario. a few nations reach posterity. enmeshed in new forms issues.mic reasonse many for these outcomes. i would like to suggest development politics laid a role

in this unhappy turn of events. development politics is a product of the international -- interaction of national and international politics for power. scholars have shown how donors use development aid compared with government to government countries andsh some companie reward others. it emphasized the ways in which foreign assistance force recipient nations into the same disadvantaged trade relations they had sought to overcome. the most important effect for our purposes today is that it provided resources, technical resources, financial resources that escalated and expanded debates over economic policy in

countries across the third world. the infusion of these resources added to the challenges of governance. they began to band together, they did so with threats to sovereignty for -- from below. the title of my talk refers to the cold war three the air of development began earlier. state centered efforts to affect the social and economic transformation emerged in the first half of the 20th century. verb appliedcame a to territories, populations and to this new obscure abstraction called economies. some of these efforts appeared within national boundaries. many took place in the asian african colonies that would become third world. development is a transitive

process acting on an object emerged in expanded in the deck is between the world wars as the prerequisites of conceptual apparatus and political commitment began to combine in major european empires. there was a politics to colonial development lands, tools to strengthen or extend colonial rule but they could just as easily become and did become ways to challenge imperialism. development politics emerges in the late 19 30 is. rise of the rapid soviet antagonism. the beginning of the end broke their monopolies as colonies became nations. the american soviet