ABSTRACT
On April 17, 2002, George W. Bush invoked the Marshall Plan as a model for building a peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan (Bush 2002). According to President Bush, U.S. support for rebuilding Europe after World War II was a “beacon to light the path” toward effective post-conflict peacebuilding processes in the twenty-first century. In 2005, the Wallonia Regional Government in Belgium announced what they dubbed a Marshall plan for economic revitalization (Chaidron 2005). To the Walloons, the plan would lead to renewed local prosperity.1 Proposals for other Marshall plans are found in the political rhetoric on Iraq (Kemp 2007), Haiti (Novacek, Mederly, and Armand 2007), the Third World (Korb and Cohen 2005), the environment (Ohlsson 2004), and even the streets of Los Angeles (Newsmax.com 2007).
