The right kind of revolution modernization, development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present and U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War to the present /

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Main Author: Latham, Michael E.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011.
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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.