Global Development: A Cold War History

Cover......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright Page......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
1 Development as an Ideology for Empire......Page 24
The Civilizing Mission in the Interwar Years......Page 25
Modernity and Authoritarian Rule......Page 28
The Second World War......Page 31
2 Truman’s Dream: When the Cold War and Development Met......Page 37
Point Four......Page 41
Studying Backward Areas: Social Scientists, the Marshall Plan, and the Limits of the Cold War......Page 44
3 Socialist Modernity and the Birth of the Third World......Page 48
Ideology Put to the Test on the Colonial Question......Page 49
The Age of Indifference......Page 50
The Afterthought......Page 53
The Age of Neutralism, or the Birth of the Third World......Page 55
Khrushchev’s Challenge......Page 57
Features of Socialist Aid: Constructing the Ideological Framework......Page 58
The Political Economy of Socialist Cooperation......Page 60
4 Western Alternatives for Development in the Global Cold War......Page 65
The Inevitability of Foreign Aid as a Cold War Tool?......Page 67
Plans for Eurafrica......Page 70
An Ideology for the Global Cold War: The Rise of Modernization Theory......Page 75
The Kennedy Administration: A Turning Point?......Page 79
5 The Limits of Bipolarity in the Golden Age of Modernization......Page 83
The Cooperation Imperative in the West......Page 84
Disappointments: The United States and Bickering in the DAC......Page 86
Rostow and the Idea of Binding Rules......Page 88
The European Economic Community Way......Page 91
Coordination among Socialist Countries: The Permanent Commission for Technical Assistance in Comecon......Page 96
Responding to External Challenges......Page 100
6 International Organizations and Development as a Global Mission......Page 104
Precedents: The League of Nations......Page 105
Development as Profession after the Second World War......Page 107
The World Bank......Page 109
The United Nations and Development: The Place for an Alternative?......Page 111
UNCTAD......Page 116
Assessing Aid at the End of the First Development Decade......Page 118
The Soviet Union Reinterprets the Two Worlds Theory......Page 122
Convergence and Interdependence......Page 125
Third World Visions......Page 127
China’s Development Alternative......Page 128
Self-Reliance? Tanzania between the Tazara Railway and Ujamaa......Page 131
Third Worldism and the New International Economic Order......Page 134
8 Resources, Environment and Development: The Difficult Nexus......Page 139
The End of Technological Optimism?......Page 140
Recasting the Problems of Modern Society......Page 144
The Emergence of Global Environmentalism: Stockholm, 1972......Page 148
Environment and Development as Seen from the East......Page 152
The Legacy of Stockholm and the Invention of Sustainable Development......Page 154
9 Responding to the Challenges from the Global South: North-South Dialogues......Page 157
The Birth of Basic Needs in the Second Development Decade......Page 158
The Lomé Revolution......Page 160
A Regional Plan: The Euro-Arab Dialogue......Page 163
North-South Dialogue: The Global Dimension......Page 165
Development and Human Rights......Page 169
10 The Dynamics of the Lost Decade......Page 175
Conclusions......Page 184
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 242
Index......Page 278