TY - BOOK AU - Hadley Arkes AU - Hadley Arkes TI - Bureaucracy, the Marshall Plan, and the national interest T2 - Princeton legacy library SN - 9780691619330 U1 - 338.9173 ARK PY - 1972/// CY - Princeton, New Jersey PB - : Princeton University Press KW - Social Science KW - Economic assistance, American KW - Marshall Plan N2 - The Marshall Plan has been widely regarded as a realistic yet generous policy, and a wise construction of the national interest. But how was the blend of interest and generosity in the minds of its initiators transformed in the process of bureaucratic administration? Hadley Arkes studies the Marshall Plan as an example of the process by which a national interest in foreign policy is defined and implemented. The author's analysis of the efforts to design the Economic Cooperation Agency demonstrates how the definition of the national interest is fundamentally linked to the character of the pol ER -