Latham, Michael E.

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 / [electronic resource] : Michael E. Latham. - Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2011. - ix, 246 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.






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