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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (257 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801460531
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Right Kind of RevolutionDDC classification:
  • 327.7300904
LOC classification:
  • E840 -- .L38 2011eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Foundations: Imperial Ideals, Global War, and Decolonization -- 2. Take-Off: Modernization and Cold War America -- 3. Nationalist Encounters: Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana -- 4. Technocratic Faith: From Birth Control to the Green Revolution -- 5. Counterinsurgency and Repression: Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran -- 6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn -- 7. The Ghosts of Modernization: From Cold War Victory to Afghanistan and Iraq -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: A critical history of modernization theory in American foreign policy.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Setting the Foundations: Imperial Ideals, Global War, and Decolonization -- 2. Take-Off: Modernization and Cold War America -- 3. Nationalist Encounters: Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana -- 4. Technocratic Faith: From Birth Control to the Green Revolution -- 5. Counterinsurgency and Repression: Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran -- 6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn -- 7. The Ghosts of Modernization: From Cold War Victory to Afghanistan and Iraq -- Bibliography -- Index.

A critical history of modernization theory in American foreign policy.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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