Development against democracy manipulating political change in the third world
"This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernization and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
Pluto Press
2017, 2017©2017
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| Edition: | New edition |
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "This new, updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernization and development. In the mid-twentieth century, models of development studies were products of postwar American policy. They focused on newly independent states in the Global South, aiming to assure their pro-Western orientation by claiming to promote economic growth and democracy, while masking U.S. intervention to block radical change. Irene L. Gendzier argues that the fundamental ideas on which theories of modernization and development rest have been resurrected in contemporary policy and its theories, representing the continuity of postwar U.S. foreign policy and its claims of American exceptionalism in a world permanently altered by globalization and its multiple discontents, the proliferation of 'failed states, ' the unprecedented exodus of refugees, and Washington's declaration of a permanent 'war against terrorism'."-- |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published 1985 by Westview Press as Managing Political Change: Social Scientists and the Third World. Reissued 1995 by The Tyrone Press as Development Against Democracy: Manipulating Political Change in the Third World"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 218 pages |
| ISBN: | 0745337295 9780745337296 |