6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. INTRODUCTION 1
5. 1. Setting the Foundations: Imperial Ideals, Global War, and Decolonization 10
6. 2. Take-Off: Modernization and Cold War America 36
7. 3. Nationalist Encounters: Nehru’s India, Nasser’s Egypt, and Nkrumah’s Ghana 65
8. 4. Technocratic Faith: From Birth Control to the Green Revolution 93
9. 5. Counterinsurgency and Repression: Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran 123
10. 6. Modernization under Fire: Alternative Paradigms, Sustainable Development, and the Neoliberal Turn 157
11. 7. The Ghosts of Modernization: From Cold War Victory to Afghanistan and Iraq 186
12. Bibliography 221
13. Index 239