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Ambassadorial finance in Mexico

Morrow models finance, diplomacy, and institutional repair as one statecraft problem.

Author: Dwight Morrow
Year: 1927
Track: state capacity
Citation: Dwight Morrow, Mexico ambassadorship record, 1927–1930.

Dwight W. Morrow, J.P. Morgan banker and U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, portrait c. 1900s — Bain News Service, Library of Congress, public domain

Morrow models finance, diplomacy, and institutional repair as one statecraft problem. Its place in the canon is not decorative. It marks a recurring problem for American economic statecraft: how law, capital, operators, and legitimacy combine when a nation tries to build strategic economic terrain.