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 /
Michael E. Latham.
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (c)2011.
- 1 online resource (ix, 246 pages)
Includes bibliographies 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.