The Origin Of The U.S. World Population Policy(1969-1975)

Based on the file of "No.200National Security Memorandum "(referred to NSSM-200file), this essay analyses the special role of the NSSM-200file in the U.S. foreign aid, especially U.S. population assistance. Compared with other factors affecting the U.S. population assistance, NSSM-200file not only directly affect the formation of the world’s population policy in the United States, but also played an important role in the control and penetration of Third World countries.Chapter One reviews the characteristics of previous foreign aid and the plight of foreign aid before Nixon came into power, and further analyses how the latter part of the Johnson administration adjusted and changed its foreign aid policy. Foreign aid is an important step in the post-war U.S. foreign policy. The situation in foreign aid was in a period of transition when Lyndon Johnson was in power. the Kennedy administration Promulgated the "Foreign Assistance Act", and the aid to Third World countries were referred to an important position. but in the decades before and after Kennedy came into power, the military and economic aid did not receive the desired results for the United States in these countries, but sometimes it also made the social and economic development of the recipient countries have side effects. Johnson took office, for the new situation and new problems emerging in the postwar Third World countries, had opened population assistance projects.Chapter two focuses the attitude of the Nixon administration on the issue of population assistance. Nixon actively prepared for a world population control policy, and did a preliminary test on the World Population Conference in Bucharest in1974. While those efforts turned out to be a failure, the Nixon administration made some change on its foreign policy. The Nixon administration inherited the concern of the Johnson Administration on demographic factors, and developed a first draft of the "No.200National Security Memorandum" file, and actively selling to the world. U.S. foreign aid is a step by step to be into the track of the security strategy services, for economic services around the "people" itself. Chapter three mainly discusses the content of Nixon’s world’s population policy file, and emphasis on the concept of national security, then discusses President Ford formally signed. Due to the help of the signing of this document, the United States had the first official world’s population policy, and in the control and penetration of the Third World made new breakthroughs.Chapter Four mainly discusses the fate of NSSM-200file,and its effect for the Third World, and even the world. NSSM-200file,in the mediation of the United States and the Catholic forces, was hidden for14years, but it was not stranded, and it have been secretly executed, and has left its mark in many corners of the world. Not limited to many Third World countries, other countries have slowly come to accept the related concept of population control.The epilogue finally summarizes the special role of the NSSM-200file in the U.S. population aid policy formation, and the implementation process, and pointed out that the NSSM-200file had actually acted as the vital, the lubricant and the link. In the Process coordination the world’s population growth and the U.S. national security the NSSM-200file played an indispensable role.