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Liberal America and the Third World: Political Development Ideas in Foreign Aid and Social Science
By (Author) Robert A. Packenham
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Political science and theory
338.911
Hardback
418
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
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 poli