Stephen Macekura
Biographic Data
| ID | 1600715 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Macekura |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Macekura |
| SIGNATURE | MACEKURA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Transnational Racisms Among the Neoliberal Elite
The Growth Debate, North-South Politics, and the Fate of Environmental Internationalism in the 1970s
The Growth Concept, Decolonization, and the Global Cold War: A Study of Economic Ideas and Twentieth-Century International History
This essay stresses the importance of connecting histories of economic thought with twentieth-century international history. It draws on recent scholarship from both fields related to the history of economic growth measured by statistical aggregates such as gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) to argue that interrelated structural changes of the international system during and after World War II -global decolonization, th…
Pursuing Peace through the Private Sector
Journal Article Pursuing Peace through the Private Sector Get access Ethan B. Kapstein. Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and U.S. Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Stephen Macekura Stephen Macekura Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 898–901, https://doi.org/…
Making the Contract State: Nathan Associates, Inc. and Foreign Aid Privatization
Robert Nathan was not the most prominent figure in U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime cabinet, but he got a taste of the public spotlight in April 1942 when Life magazine ran a profile of him. The journalist Joseph Thorndike, Jr. followed Nathan through a typical week in Washington, D.C. Thorndike lauded Nathan’s jocular personality and modest lifestyle. Photographs accompanying the article showed Nathan exercising in a boxing ring and p…
State of the field: A comparative analysis of international development studies majors in Canada, the United Kingdom and United States
Through a critical analysis of undergraduate Development Studies (DS) majors, this study examines the ways that DS departments construct the discipline and contribute to the production of knowledge in the field. By comparing curricular requirements of DS majors at 56 universities, this paper illuminates priorities of DS as identified through teaching. We find that most DS majors have an interdisciplinary focus, require courses in economics and re…
Dudley Seers, the Institute for Development Studies, and the Fracturing of International Development Thought in the 1960s and 1970s
This article explores Dudley Seers's efforts to reform international development during the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it emphasizes Seers's criticisms of conventional economic metrics, such as Gross National Product (GNP), and his efforts to find alternative ways to measure and define developmental success. The article shows how Seers's research on measurement contributed to a growing set of reforms that shifted developmental goals away fro…
Measurement, Development, and Post-Colonial Power
Over the last two decades, the history of international and national development has become a major focus of scholarly inquiry. From Nick Cullather’s 2000 essay that encouraged Diplomatic History readers to treat “development as history” to David Engerman’s 2016 SHAFR Presidential Address that argued development aid shaped “new patterns of relations between nations,” studies of development and its history have broadened our collective understandi…
Seeing Spaceship Earth
In 1961, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) brought together a network of scientists to collaborate on a peculiar endeavor: to make a map of the world’s soils. The project was a vexing one. Using a scale of 1:5 million, the Soil Map of the World was hardly useful for the average farmer. Soil composition and quality, moreover, are irreducibly local substan…
Whither growth? International development, social indicators, and the politics of measurement, 1920s–1970s
Few concepts in the history of twentieth-century history proved as important as economic growth. Scholars such as Charles Maier, Robert Collins, and Timothy Mitchell have analysed how the notion that an entity called ‘the economy’ (defined by metrics such as Gross National Product, or GNP) could be made to grow came to define economic thought and policy worldwide. Yet there has been far less attention paid to the fact that neither growth nor GNP …
Megan Black. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
In 1965 Frank Herbert published the hit science fiction novel Dune, a story of an intergalactic society’s ecological and social decline that stemmed in part from a lust for valuable minerals. In that same year, the U.S. Department of the Interior began research on the prospects of lunar mining. As Megan Black notes in her provocative and insightful new book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, the “strikingly parallel scenar…
The Development Century: A Global History
This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and developm…
Crisis and Opportunity: Environmental NGOs, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Rise of 'People-Centred' Conservation
This article presents a history of the rise of 'people-centred' conservation in international environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) during the global debt crisis of the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s, many NGOs embraced complicated financial arrangements called 'debt-for-nature swaps' to relieve the debt crisis and to promote environmental conservation in many developing nations. The swaps presented an opportunity for NGOs to promote…
The Relationship of Morals and Markets Today: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the Culture of Economic Life
This article surveys recent trends in scholarship on capitalism within the fields of history, cultural sociology, and religious studies, highlighting the ways that scholars working in each of these disciplines have shifted their methodological and substantive approaches so as to foreground the cultural and moral, rather than technical, aspects of economic life. In light of our current moment of cultural reflection upon the character and future of…
Dirk Philipsen. The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It
What’s in a number? For Dirk Philipsen, quite a lot. His book, The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It, explores the history behind Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a metric that is supposed to express the total quantity of goods and services produced within a country. Philipsen argues that the “GDP has mutated from useful descriptive tool to prescriptive be-all and end-all,” and he investigates this transformat…
Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century
The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy
Journal Article The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy Get access Stephen Macekura Stephen Macekura STEPHEN MACEKURA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and a Dissertation Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. He has published various articles on U.S. foreign relations, international development, and environmental politics. Search for other works by this auth…
The limits of the global community: The Nixon administration and global environmental politics
This article presents the rise and decline of the Nixon administration's commitment to international environmental policies. It argues that administration officials pursued environmental issues to garner domestic political support and to revive interest in institutions in the wake of 1968.Though common interests among Western industrialised nations helped to promote cooperation on new environmental programmes, serious divisions arose between the …
For Fear of Persecution”: Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy
Journal Article The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy Get access Stephen Macekura Stephen Macekura STEPHEN MACEKURA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and a Dissertation Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. He has published various articles on U.S. foreign relations, international development, and environmental politics. Search for other works by this auth…
Whither growth? International development, social indicators, and the politics of measurement, 1920s–1970s
Few concepts in the history of twentieth-century history proved as important as economic growth. Scholars such as Charles Maier, Robert Collins, and Timothy Mitchell have analysed how the notion that an entity called ‘the economy’ (defined by metrics such as Gross National Product, or GNP) could be made to grow came to define economic thought and policy worldwide. Yet there has been far less attention paid to the fact that neither growth nor GNP …
For Fear of Persecution”: Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Dudley Seers, the Institute for Development Studies, and the Fracturing of International Development Thought in the 1960s and 1970s
This article explores Dudley Seers's efforts to reform international development during the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it emphasizes Seers's criticisms of conventional economic metrics, such as Gross National Product (GNP), and his efforts to find alternative ways to measure and define developmental success. The article shows how Seers's research on measurement contributed to a growing set of reforms that shifted developmental goals away fro…
The limits of the global community: The Nixon administration and global environmental politics
This article presents the rise and decline of the Nixon administration's commitment to international environmental policies. It argues that administration officials pursued environmental issues to garner domestic political support and to revive interest in institutions in the wake of 1968.Though common interests among Western industrialised nations helped to promote cooperation on new environmental programmes, serious divisions arose between the …
Crisis and Opportunity: Environmental NGOs, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Rise of 'People-Centred' Conservation
This article presents a history of the rise of 'people-centred' conservation in international environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) during the global debt crisis of the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s, many NGOs embraced complicated financial arrangements called 'debt-for-nature swaps' to relieve the debt crisis and to promote environmental conservation in many developing nations. The swaps presented an opportunity for NGOs to promote…
The Relationship of Morals and Markets Today: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the Culture of Economic Life
This article surveys recent trends in scholarship on capitalism within the fields of history, cultural sociology, and religious studies, highlighting the ways that scholars working in each of these disciplines have shifted their methodological and substantive approaches so as to foreground the cultural and moral, rather than technical, aspects of economic life. In light of our current moment of cultural reflection upon the character and future of…
The limits of the global community: The Nixon administration and global environmental politics
This article presents the rise and decline of the Nixon administration's commitment to international environmental policies. It argues that administration officials pursued environmental issues to garner domestic political support and to revive interest in institutions in the wake of 1968.Though common interests among Western industrialised nations helped to promote cooperation on new environmental programmes, serious divisions arose between the …
For Fear of Persecution”: Displaced Salvadorans and U.S. Refugee Policy in the 1980s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy
Journal Article The Point Four Program and U.S. International Development Policy Get access Stephen Macekura Stephen Macekura STEPHEN MACEKURA is a Ph.D. candidate in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and a Dissertation Fellow at the Miller Center for Public Affairs. He has published various articles on U.S. foreign relations, international development, and environmental politics. Search for other works by this auth…
Of Limits and Growth: The Rise of Global Sustainable Development in the Twentieth Century
Crisis and Opportunity: Environmental NGOs, Debt-for-Nature Swaps, and the Rise of 'People-Centred' Conservation
This article presents a history of the rise of 'people-centred' conservation in international environmental Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) during the global debt crisis of the early 1980s. In the mid-1980s, many NGOs embraced complicated financial arrangements called 'debt-for-nature swaps' to relieve the debt crisis and to promote environmental conservation in many developing nations. The swaps presented an opportunity for NGOs to promote…
The Relationship of Morals and Markets Today: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the Culture of Economic Life
This article surveys recent trends in scholarship on capitalism within the fields of history, cultural sociology, and religious studies, highlighting the ways that scholars working in each of these disciplines have shifted their methodological and substantive approaches so as to foreground the cultural and moral, rather than technical, aspects of economic life. In light of our current moment of cultural reflection upon the character and future of…
Dirk Philipsen. The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It
What’s in a number? For Dirk Philipsen, quite a lot. His book, The Little Big Number: How GDP Came to Rule the World and What to Do about It, explores the history behind Gross Domestic Product (GDP), a metric that is supposed to express the total quantity of goods and services produced within a country. Philipsen argues that the “GDP has mutated from useful descriptive tool to prescriptive be-all and end-all,” and he investigates this transformat…
The Development Century: A Global History
This anthology offers a cutting-edge perspective on how development has shaped the history of the modern world. Stephen J. Macekura and Erez Manela have gathered together leading historians to examine development on the international, regional, and national levels, as well as local manifestations of development initiatives and transnational organizing on behalf of alternative approaches. Themes include the relationship between empire and developm…
Measurement, Development, and Post-Colonial Power
Over the last two decades, the history of international and national development has become a major focus of scholarly inquiry. From Nick Cullather’s 2000 essay that encouraged Diplomatic History readers to treat “development as history” to David Engerman’s 2016 SHAFR Presidential Address that argued development aid shaped “new patterns of relations between nations,” studies of development and its history have broadened our collective understandi…
Seeing Spaceship Earth
In 1961, the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) brought together a network of scientists to collaborate on a peculiar endeavor: to make a map of the world’s soils. The project was a vexing one. Using a scale of 1:5 million, the Soil Map of the World was hardly useful for the average farmer. Soil composition and quality, moreover, are irreducibly local substan…
Whither growth? International development, social indicators, and the politics of measurement, 1920s–1970s
Few concepts in the history of twentieth-century history proved as important as economic growth. Scholars such as Charles Maier, Robert Collins, and Timothy Mitchell have analysed how the notion that an entity called ‘the economy’ (defined by metrics such as Gross National Product, or GNP) could be made to grow came to define economic thought and policy worldwide. Yet there has been far less attention paid to the fact that neither growth nor GNP …
Megan Black. The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power
In 1965 Frank Herbert published the hit science fiction novel Dune, a story of an intergalactic society’s ecological and social decline that stemmed in part from a lust for valuable minerals. In that same year, the U.S. Department of the Interior began research on the prospects of lunar mining. As Megan Black notes in her provocative and insightful new book The Global Interior: Mineral Frontiers and American Power, the “strikingly parallel scenar…
Dudley Seers, the Institute for Development Studies, and the Fracturing of International Development Thought in the 1960s and 1970s
This article explores Dudley Seers's efforts to reform international development during the 1960s and 1970s. In particular, it emphasizes Seers's criticisms of conventional economic metrics, such as Gross National Product (GNP), and his efforts to find alternative ways to measure and define developmental success. The article shows how Seers's research on measurement contributed to a growing set of reforms that shifted developmental goals away fro…
State of the field: A comparative analysis of international development studies majors in Canada, the United Kingdom and United States
Through a critical analysis of undergraduate Development Studies (DS) majors, this study examines the ways that DS departments construct the discipline and contribute to the production of knowledge in the field. By comparing curricular requirements of DS majors at 56 universities, this paper illuminates priorities of DS as identified through teaching. We find that most DS majors have an interdisciplinary focus, require courses in economics and re…
Pursuing Peace through the Private Sector
Journal Article Pursuing Peace through the Private Sector Get access Ethan B. Kapstein. Exporting Capitalism: Private Enterprise and U.S. Foreign Policy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 304 pp. $39.95 (hardcover). Stephen Macekura Stephen Macekura Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 47, Issue 5, November 2023, Pages 898–901, https://doi.org/…
Making the Contract State: Nathan Associates, Inc. and Foreign Aid Privatization
Robert Nathan was not the most prominent figure in U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt’s wartime cabinet, but he got a taste of the public spotlight in April 1942 when Life magazine ran a profile of him. The journalist Joseph Thorndike, Jr. followed Nathan through a typical week in Washington, D.C. Thorndike lauded Nathan’s jocular personality and modest lifestyle. Photographs accompanying the article showed Nathan exercising in a boxing ring and p…
The Growth Debate, North-South Politics, and the Fate of Environmental Internationalism in the 1970s
The Growth Concept, Decolonization, and the Global Cold War: A Study of Economic Ideas and Twentieth-Century International History
This essay stresses the importance of connecting histories of economic thought with twentieth-century international history. It draws on recent scholarship from both fields related to the history of economic growth measured by statistical aggregates such as gross national product (GNP) and gross domestic product (GDP) to argue that interrelated structural changes of the international system during and after World War II -global decolonization, th…
Transnational Racisms Among the Neoliberal Elite
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