Development Against Democracy : Manipulating Political Change in the Third World

This updated edition of the influential Development Against Democracy is a critical guide to postwar studies of modernisation 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...

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Main Author: GENDZIER, Irene L. (Author)
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