Global Development : A Cold War History Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Development as an Ideology for Empire The Civilizing Mission in the Interwar Years Modernity and Authoritarian Rule The Second World War 2 Trumans Dream: When the Cold War and Development Met Point Four Studying Backward Areas: Social Scientists the Marshall Plan and the Limits of the Cold War 3 Socialist Modernity and the Birth of the Third World Ideology Put to the Test on the Colonial Question The Age of Indifference The Afterthought The Age of Neutralism or the Birth of the Third World Khrushchevs Challenge Features of Socialist Aid: Constructing the Ideological Framework The Political Economy of Socialist Cooperation 4 Western Alternatives for Development in the Global Cold War The Inevitability of Foreign Aid as a Cold War Tool Plans for Eurafrica An Ideology for the Global Cold War: The Rise of Modernization Theory The Kennedy Administration: A Turning Point 5 The Limits of Bipolarity in the Golden Age of Modernization The Cooperation Imperative in the West Disappointments: The United States and Bickering in the DAC Rostow and the Idea of Binding Rules The European Economic Community Way Coordination among Socialist Countries: The Permanent Commission for Technical Assistance in Comecon Responding to External Challenges 6 International Organizations and Development as a Global Mission Precedents: The League of Nations Development as Profession after the Second World War The World Bank The United Nations and Development: The Place for an Alternative UNCTAD Assessing Aid at the End of the First Development Decade 7 Multiple Modernities and Socialist Alternatives in the 1970s The Soviet Union Reinterprets the Two Worlds Theory.