Global development : a Cold War history /
In the Cold War, "development" was a catchphrase that came to signify progress, modernity, and economic growth. Development aid was closely aligned with the security concerns of the great powers, for whom infrastructure and development projects were ideological tools for conquering hearts...
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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Truman's 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
- Khrushchev's ChallengeFeatures 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 WayCoordination 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
- Convergence and InterdependenceThird World Visions; China's Development Alternative; Self-Reliance? Tanzania between the Tazara Railway and Ujamaa; Third Worldism and the New International Economic Order; 8 Resources, Environment and Development: The Difficult Nexus; The End of Technological Optimism?; Recasting the Problems of Modern Society; The Emergence of Global Environmentalism: Stockholm, 1972; Environment and Development as Seen from the East; The Legacy of Stockholm and the Invention of Sustainable Development
- 9 Responding to the Challenges from the Global South: North-South DialoguesThe Birth of Basic Needs in the Second Development Decade; The Lomé Revolution; A Regional Plan: The Euro-Arab Dialogue; North-South Dialogue: The Global Dimension; Development and Human Rights; 10 The Dynamics of the Lost Decade; Conclusions; Notes; Bibliography; Index