Robert A. Packenham Liberal America and the Third World (Hardback) For Sale

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Title: Liberal America and the Third World
Condition: New
Author: Robert A. Packenham
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Subtitle: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science
ISBN-10: 0691644063
EAN: 9780691644066
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9780691644066
Release Date: 04/19/2016
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 235mm
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics
Description: 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 have remained largely constant: democracy, stability, anti-communism. Why did the objectives and theories of U.S. aid officials and social scientists remain largely the same in the face of such negative results and despite the seeming inappropriateness of their ideas in the Third World context? Robert Packenham believes that the thinking of both officials and social scientists was profoundly influenced by the \"Liberal Tradition\" and its view of the American historical experience. Thus, he finds that U.S. opposition to revolution in the Third World steins not only from perceptions of security needs but also from the very conceptions of development that arc held by Americans.American pessimism about the consequences of revolution is intimately related to American optimism about the political effects of economic growth. In his final chapter the author offers some suggestions for a future policy. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Item Length: 152mm
Item Weight: 482g
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
Release Year: 2016

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