The right kind of revolution
Subtitle: 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
By: Michael E. Latham
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780801446047
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Setting the foundations : imperial ideals, global war, and decolonization; title: Take-off : modernization and Cold War America; title: Nationalist encounters : Nehru's India, Nasser's Egypt, and Nkrumah's Ghana; title: Technocratic faith : from birth control to the green revolution; title: Counterinsurgency and repression : Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran; title: Modernization under fire : alternative paradigms, sustainable development, and the neoliberal turn; title: The ghosts of modernization : from Cold War victory to Afghanistan and Iraq.