Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and Us Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9781107185685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 316 str.

Ethan B. Kapstein

Opis

This book analyses American interventions in the developing world, asking what can be done to reduce their economic and human cost.

Recenzje

'... this book certainly makes a valuable contribution to understanding the mechanisms when such reformist strategies might be effective, the demand and appetite for such interventions on Washington's part in the coming future are likely to be very limited.' Ionut C. Popescu, International Relations

Spis treści

1. Introduction; Part I. From Grievance Theory to Reformist Intervention: 2. Grievance theory and US foreign policy; 3. The strategy of reformist intervention; Part II. Promoting Land Reform: Success and Failure: 4. Land to the tiller in the early Cold War: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Italy; 5. Land reform as counterinsurgency policy: the Philippines and South Vietnam; 6. Land reform and social revolution in Latin America: 1952–90; 7. Iran: did land reform backfire?; Part III. Looking Ahead: 8. Land and conflict in the twenty-first century; 9. The future of reformist intervention.