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The right kind of revolution : modernization, development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present / Michael E. Latham.

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After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, pro...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Latham, Michael E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2011].
Series:Cornell paperbacks.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 1945-1989.
United States > Foreign relations > 1989-
Diplomatic relations
United States
Since 1945
Table of Contents:
  • Setting the foundations : imperial ideals, global war, and decolonization
  • Take-off : modernization and Cold War America
  • Nationalist encounters : Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana
  • Technocratic faith : from birth control to the green revolution
  • Counterinsurgency and repression : Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran
  • Modernization under fire : alternative paradigms, sustainable development, and the neoliberal turn
  • The ghosts of modernization : from Cold War victory to Afghanistan and Iraq.

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