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In No Turning Back, Paul Addison takes the long view, charting the vastly changing character of British society since the end of the Second World War. As he shows, in this period a series of peaceful revolutions has completely transformed the country so that, with the advantage of a longer perspective, the comparative peace and growing prosperity of the second half of the twentieth century appear as more powerful solvents of settled ways of life than the Battle of the Sommeor the Blitz. We have come to take for granted a welfare state which would have seemed extraordinary to our forebears in t

Great Britain --- Social conditions --- Civilization --- Geschichte 1945-1997.

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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 development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing inequality, damaging the environment, and supporting coercive social policies. In countries such as Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran, U.S. officials and policymakers turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and control, ultimately shoring up dictatorial regimes and exacerbating the very revolutionary dangers they wished to resolve. Those failures contributed to a growing challenge to modernization theory in the late 1960's and 1970's. Since the end of the Cold War the faith in modernization as a panacea has reemerged. The idea of a global New Deal, however, has been replaced by a neoliberal emphasis on the power of markets to shape developing nations in benevolent ways. U.S. policymakers have continued to insist that history has a clear, universal direction, but events in Iraq and Afghanistan give the lie to modernization's false hopes and appealing promises.

International Studies. --- Political Science & Political History. --- HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. --- United States --- Foreign relations --- Geschichte 1945-2011.

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Japan --- Japon --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- Diplomatic relations. --- Buitenlandse politiek. --- Au�enpolitik. --- Geschichte 1945-2006. --- Since 1945. --- Japan. --- Au�enpolitik.Geschichte 1945-2006. --- Since 1945.Japan --- Japan.Foreign relations --- J4810.90 --- Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- postwar Shōwa (1945- ), Heisei period (1989- ), contemporary --- Außenpolitik. --- Relations extérieures --- Japan - Foreign relations - 1945 --- -Japan

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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 development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely went as its architects anticipated. Nationalist leaders in postcolonial states such as India, Ghana, and Egypt pursued their own independent visions of development. Attempts to promote technological solutions to development problems also created unintended consequences by increasing inequality, damaging the environment, and supporting coercive social policies. In countries such as Guatemala, South Vietnam, and Iran, U.S. officials and policymakers turned to modernization as a means of counterinsurgency and control, ultimately shoring up dictatorial regimes and exacerbating the very revolutionary dangers they wished to resolve. Those failures contributed to a growing challenge to modernization theory in the late 1960s and 1970s. Since the end of the Cold War the faith in modernization as a panacea has reemerged. The idea of a global New Deal, however, has been replaced by a neoliberal emphasis on the power of markets to shape developing nations in benevolent ways. U.S. policymakers have continued to insist that history has a clear, universal direction, but events in Iraq and Afghanistan give the lie to modernization's false hopes and appealing promises.

United States --- Etats-Unis --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- #SBIB:327H15 --- #SBIB:328H31 --- Buitenlandse politiek: Noord-Amerika --- Instellingen en beleid: VSA / USA --- Geschichte 1945-2011. --- Relations extérieures --- 1945-1989 --- 1989 --- -United States --- -#SBIB:327H15

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"Explores an international network of artists, artist groups, and critics linked by their aesthetic and theoretical responses to science, science fiction, and new media. Focuses on the Italian spatial artist, Lucio Fontana and French painter of space, Yves Klein"--Provided by publisher.

Art, European --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- Art, Modern --- History --- Fontana, Lucio, --- Klein, Yves, --- Art --- Fontana, Lucio --- Klein, Yves --- anno 1900-1999 --- Art, European. --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics). --- Avantgarde. --- Kunst. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1945-1975. --- Europa.