The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present

"Michael E. Latham has provided a very interesting and useful synthesis of the rise and decline (and eventual reappearance) of modernization theory in the United States, exploring both its intellectual roots and its deep connections to the country's foreign policy."— Michele Alacevich ― Technology and Culture

After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the developme...