Otherwise known as the European Economic Recovery Plan, what came to be known as: The Marshall Plan was a package loan of 12 billion (120 billion in Dec. 2016 fiat) to World War II torn nations across Western Europe. Its secondary goal – which was equally successful – was a “policy of containment” for the spread of communism into collapsed capitalist economies. Prior to, but in relation with the Marshall Plan was The Truman Doctrine – which was ultimately military (not economic) aid to Turkey and Greece as a state deterrent to the revolutionary idiosyncrasies of communism. As a result, European economies grew at a rapid rate; the consequential steel and coal industries and regulations gave rise to the rudimentary framework for today’s European Union.
The Marshall Plan establishes an objective precedence for a global economic recovery plan; 'humanitarian equity' to (counter-) balance today’s credit-driven hypercapitalist & militant attitudes with Marxist & social justice ideologies; in more reductive terms – a practical alliance between progressive and conservative, liberal and republican, left and right. This proposed “global economic recovery plan”, I sum up under the moniker – Concept Zero henceforth to elucidate the necessary absent cause effects that would be critical in the achievement of the objectives entailed. These objectives may also be summed up in a slogan:
“Always working toward the larger picture – having all that we want and none of what others need.”
This may have a particularly Marxist tone to it in reflection of the slogan:
“From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.”
However, the Concept Zero slogan leaves more open the distribution factor – which is usually implemented by a socialized state apparatus. To that effect - the notion that: self-sustainment is an ultimate virtue; but it may only be taught & not enforced, replicated but not simulated - is a particularly useful analysis for autonomous societies and peoples seeking independence.
Precedents established by Marshall Plan (derived from aspects of your descriptions above):
1. Intentional, significant, long-term strategy by a global hegemon (USA + NATO) with many counterproductive variables & actors (Communist nations, led by USSR).
2. High levels of coordination & synchronization between key actors from USG "interagency" communities with counterpart agencies of partner states: financial/commercial, economic, military, diplomatic & intelligence communities were unified under strong Executive Powers and supported (not without debate) by the Legislative branch.
3. This worked in part because the cultural gaps were relatively small (European descendants in USA interfacing with culturally ancestral European states). The failed/failing NATO and US experiences in Afghanistan & Iraq would/could be indicated by much broader cultural gaps between expeditionary actors and subject/target states & their dominant cultures.
4. Another dominant (in my opinion) factor was that in WW2 there was a dramatic and lasting 'social balancing' factor ('enemy of my enemy') that united European populations with their US+UK liberators. There was a long and very socially destructive Nazi occupation that required pre-invasion intelligence activities by US+UK that accomplished two major requirements for post-combat acceptance and success:
1. The ability of intelligence services (MI6, Brit SOE & US OSS) to assess popular sentiment toward the Allies (and Axis powers) and offer recommendations to their governments as to necessary precursor activities, key players at the national and local levels, and provide a manner of liberation appropriate to each sub-group.
2. A solid intelligence footing to assess and eliminate/mitigate enemy actor plans & capabilities to reduce the Soviet/communist party effectiveness in each state and across the region.
This worked in Italy, Greece, Turkey, Austria & the Scandinavian states; resulted in mixed results in Germany, France & Italy; and failed in the Soviet Bloc/occupied states & Yugoslavia. Even achieved some mixed results in Soviet bloc states (Poland, Hungary & Czechoslovakia, until Soviet re-invasions and crack-downs). Note that the New Left/Communist terrorist organizations (Red Brigades, Red Army Faction, Baader-Meinhof Group,etc. took until the 1980s to burn out). Eventually everything worked out, more or less, by the 1990s, peacefully in some areas (Germany) and violently (Yugoslavia) in others.
Also, please note that the contested areas required major military, economic, diplomatic and intelligence agency commitments, with a lot of collateral damage over the decades of commitments. Some level of resistance is inevitable, even if the cultures are somewhat similar and goals generally align. While no society is monolithic, NATO sought to become a monolithic protector against a common threat.
I picked the aspects from your description since those are mostly likely relevant to the scope of your project. I'll check out your Concept Zero page! Good luck!
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