Global Development (eBook)

A Cold War History

Sara Lorenzini (Autor)

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2019
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18556-9 (ISBN)

Infos

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 and minds around the globe, from Europe and Africa to Asia and Latin America. In this sweeping and incisive book, Sara Lorenzini provides a global history of development, drawing on a wealth of archival evidence to offer a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of a Cold War phenomenon that transformed the modern world.Taking readers from the aftermath of the Second World War to the tearing down of the Berlin Wall, Lorenzini shows how development projects altered local realities, transnational interactions, and even ideas about development itself. She shines new light on the international organizations behind these projectsexamining their strategies and priorities and assessing the actual results on the groundand she also gives voice to the recipients of development aid. Lorenzini shows how the Cold War shaped the global ambitions of development on both sides of the Iron Curtain, and how international organizations promoted an unrealistically harmonious vision of development that did not reflect local and international differences.An unparalleled journey into the political, intellectual, and economic history of the twentieth century, this book presents a global perspective on Cold War development, demonstrating how its impacts are still being felt today.

Autor

Sara Lorenzini is associate professor of international history in the School of International Studies at the University of Trento in Italy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2019
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Reihe/Serie: America in the World
• Zusatzinfo: 4 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Agriculture • Aid • Algeria • Anti-Communism • Anti-Imperialism • Backwardness • Bretton Woods System • Capitalism • Civilizing Mission • Colonialism • COMECON • communism • Criticism • Currency • Decolonization • developed country • Developing Country • development aid • Development Economics • development plan • Director-general • Disarmament • Eastern Bloc • Economic Development • Economic Growth • Economics • economist • economy • Employment • Eurafrica • European Economic Community • European Integration • Failed State • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Funding • G77 • Governance • Gunnar Myrdal • Ideology • imperialism • Indochina • industrialisation • Infrastructure • Institution • interdependence • International Community • International Development • International Organization • International Relations • International Trade • Jan Tinbergen • John F. Kennedy • John Kenneth Galbraith • Kwame Nkrumah • Latin America • League of Nations • Marshall Plan • Modernity • Modernization Theory • Nationalization • New International Economic Order • Nikita Khrushchev • OPEC • Peace Corps • Political Economy • Politician • Politics • poverty reduction • Precedent • Racism • raw material • rural development • scientific socialism • Self-determination • Social engineering (political science) • socialist state • Socialist Unity Party of Germany • social revolution • Social Science • Southern Africa • Soviet Union • Supply (economics) • Tanzania • Technology • third world • Unemployment • United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • United Nations development programme • United Nations Economic and Social Council • United States Agency for International Development • United States Department of State • Welfare State • Western World • West Germany • World Bank • World Bank Group • World History • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18556-5 / 0691185565
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18556-9 / 9780691185569