Right Kind of Revolution Modernization, Development, and U. S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present

Name: Right Kind of Revolution Modernization, Development, and U. S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present
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ISBN: 9780801477263

ISBN-10: 0801477263

ISBN-13: 9780801477263

Edition: 2010

Authors: 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, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 1/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.25" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English

Michael E. Latham is Professor of History at Fordham University and Dean of Fordham College at Rose Hill. He is the author of Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era and coeditor of Staging Growth: Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War and Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective .



Acknowledgments


Introduction



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


Bibliography


Index