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Latham provides a detailed, clear, and largely well-supported study of several important U.S. Cold War foreign policies."American Historical Review" This book should be widely read by students and scholars of history, political science, sociology, and policy analysis. "Choice" Elegant, precise, and copiously informative.Anders Stephanson, Columbia University "Latham provides a detailed, clear, and largely well-supported study of several important U.S. Cold War foreign policies."American Historical Review"" Latham's is an important book that should find a wide audience among those interested in the history of the Cold War."International Affairs" "This book should be widely read by students and scholars of history, political science, sociology, and policy analysis. "Choice"" "Elegant, precise, and copiously informative.Anders Stephanson, Columbia University" A particularly interesting study. "Journal of American History"
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Providing new insight on the intellectual and cultural dimensions of the Cold War, Michael Latham reveals how social science theory helped shape American foreign policy during the Kennedy administration. He shows how, in the midst of America's protracted struggle to contain communism in the developing world, the concept of global modernization moved beyond its beginnings in academia to become a motivating ideology behind policy decisions. After tracing the rise of modernization theory in American social science, Latham analyzes the way its core assumptions influenced the Kennedy administration's Alliance for Progress with Latin America, the creation of the Peace Corps, and the strategic hamlet program in Vietnam. But as he demonstrates, modernizers went beyond insisting on the relevance of America's experience to the dilemmas faced by impoverished countries. Seeking to accelerate the movement of foreign societies toward a liberal, democratic, and capitalist modernity, Kennedy and his advisers also reiterated a much deeper sense of their own nation's vital strengths and essential benevolence. At the height of the Cold War, Latham argues, modernization recast older ideologies of Manifest Destiny and imperialism.
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- EditorialThe University of North Carolina Press
- Año de publicación2000
- ISBN 10 0807825336
- ISBN 13 9780807825334
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