LEADER 04542nam 2200673 a 450 001 9910828182503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-6056-5 010 $a0-8014-6053-0 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801460531 035 $a(CKB)2550000000035304 035 $a(OCoLC)732957121 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10468034 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000529808 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11354311 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000529808 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10557393 035 $a(PQKB)10632536 035 $a(DE-B1597)527046 035 $a(OCoLC)1110711927 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801460531 035 $a(OCoLC)1227051365 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse58304 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138155 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10468034 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL762900 035 $a(OCoLC)922998178 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138155 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000035304 100 $a20100715d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe right kind of revolution $emodernization, development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the present and U.S. foreign policy from the Cold War to the present /$fMichael E. Latham 210 $aIthaca $cCornell University Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (256 p.) 225 0 $aCornell paperbacks 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-7726-3 311 $a0-8014-4604-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aSetting 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. 330 $aAfter World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing inequality, damaging the environment, and supporting coercive social policies. In countries such as Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran, U.S. officials and policymakers turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and control, ultimately shoring up dictatorial regimes and exacerbating the very revolutionary dangers they wished to resolve. Those failures contributed to a growing challenge to modernization theory in the late 1960's and 1970's. Since the end of the Cold War the faith in modernization as a panacea has reemerged. The idea of a global New Deal, however, has been replaced by a neoliberal emphasis on the power of markets to shape developing nations in benevolent ways. U.S. policymakers have continued to insist that history has a clear, universal direction, but events in Iraq and Afghanistan give the lie to modernization's false hopes and appealing promises. 410 0$aCornell paperbacks. 606 $aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century$2bisacsh 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1945-1989 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1989- 615 7$aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. 676 $a327.73009/04 700 $aLatham$b Michael E$0147293 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910828182503321 996 $aThe right kind of revolution$94078106 997 $aUNINA