TY - BOOK AU - Latham,Michael E. TI - The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U. S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present SN - 9780801460531 AV - E840 -- .L38 2011eb U1 - 327.7300904 PY - 2011/// CY - Ithaca PB - Cornell University Press KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989 KW - United States -- Foreign relations -- 1989- KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - A critical history of modernization theory in American foreign policy UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138155 ER -