The Ends of Modernization

The Ends of Modernization
Author: David Johnson Lee
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1501756230

The Ends of Modernization studies the relations between Nicaragua and the United States in the crucial years during and after the Cold War. David Johnson Lee charts the transformation of the ideals of modernization, national autonomy, and planned development as they gave way to human rights protection, neoliberalism, and sustainability. Using archival material, newspapers, literature, and interviews with historical actors in countries across Latin America, the United States, and Europe, Lee demonstrates how conflict between the United States and Nicaragua shaped larger international development policy and transformed the Cold War. In Nicaragua, the backlash to modernization took the form of the Sandinista Revolution which ousted President Anastasio Somoza Debayle in July 1979. In the wake of the earlier reconstruction of Managua after the devastating 1972 earthquake and instigated by the revolutionary shift of power in the city, the Sandinista Revolution incited radical changes that challenged the frankly ideological and economic motivations of modernization. In response to threats to its ideological dominance regionally and globally, the United States began to promote new paradigms of development built around human rights, entrepreneurial internationalism, indigenous rights, and sustainable development. Lee traces the ways Nicaraguans made their country central to the contest over development ideals beginning in the 1960s, transforming how political and economic development were imagined worldwide. By illustrating how ideas about ecology and sustainable development became linked to geopolitical conflict during and after the Cold War, The Ends of Modernization provides a history of the late Cold War that connects the contest between the two then-prevailing superpowers to trends that shape our present, globalized, multipolar world.

Mandarins of the Future

Mandarins of the Future
Author: Nils Gilman
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2007-02
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801886331

By connecting modernization theory to the welfare state liberalism programs of the New Deal order, Gilman not only provides a new intellectual context for America's Third World during the Cold War, but connects the optimism of the Great Society to the notion that American power and good intentions could stop the postcolonial world from embracing communism.

The End of the Revolution

The End of the Revolution
Author: Hui Wang
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: China
ISBN: 9781844673605

Challenging both the bureaucratic one-party regime and the Western neoliberal paradigm, this title shatters the myth of progress and reflects upon the inheritance of a revolutionary past. This title examines the roots of China's social and political problems, and traces the reforms and struggles that have led to the state of mass depoliticization

Modernization and Postmodernization

Modernization and Postmodernization
Author: Ronald Inglehart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 1997-05-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780691011806

To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on the World Values Surveys, a unique database that looks at the impact of mass publics on political and social life.

Strands of Modernization

Strands of Modernization
Author: David B. Sicilia
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2021
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1487509081

Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.

The End of Jewish Modernity

The End of Jewish Modernity
Author: Enzo Traverso
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Antisemitism
ISBN: 9780745336664

A provocative take on Jewish history, explaining the metamorphoses ofmainstream Jewish culture and politics.

The Right Kind of Revolution

The Right Kind of Revolution
Author: Michael E. Latham
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011
Genre: United States
ISBN: 9780801477263

A critical history of modernization theory in American foreign policy.

The Great American Mission

The Great American Mission
Author: David Ekbladh
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011-08-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1400833744

The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious New Deal programs like the Tennessee Valley Authority became symbols of American liberalism's ability to marshal the social sciences, state planning, civil society, and technology to produce extensive social and economic change. For proponents, it became a valuable weapon to check the influence of menacing ideologies such as Fascism and Communism. Modernization took on profound geopolitical importance as the United States grappled with these threats. After World War II, modernization remained a means to contain the growing influence of the Soviet Union. Ekbladh demonstrates how U.S.-led nation-building efforts in global hot spots, enlisting an array of nongovernmental groups and international organizations, were a basic part of American strategy in the Cold War. However, a close connection to the Vietnam War and the upheavals of the 1960s would discredit modernization. The end of the Cold War further obscured modernization's mission, but many of its assumptions regained prominence after September 11 as the United States moved to contain new threats. Using new sources and perspectives, The Great American Mission offers new and challenging interpretations of America's ideological motivations and humanitarian responsibilities abroad.

Reflexive Modernization

Reflexive Modernization
Author: Ulrich Beck
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Total Pages: 236
Release: 1994
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780804724722

Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.