Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science

by Robert A Packenham

Book Overview

In Europe after World War II, U.S. economic aid helped to ensure economic revival, political stability, and democracy. In the Third World, however, aid has been associated with very different tendencies: uneven political development, violence, political instability, and authoritarian rule in most countries.

Despite these differing patterns of political change in Europe and the Third World, however, American conceptions of political development...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069161685X
• ISBN13: 9780691616858
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 418 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"