The Cost of Sharing Race: Ambassadorial Attributes and Influence in Military Aid Allocation

• In Event: Sanctions and Aid as Foreign Policy Tools

Brief Overview

How do bureaucrats influence foreign policymaking? I measure U.S. ambassadors’ influence on military aid allocation with 200K diplomatic documents. I find that they can effect a policy change with key information about their host countries.

Author

• Clara Suong, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University