Development Against Democracy - Manipulating Political Change in the Third World

About the author

Irene L. Gendzier is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at Boston University, an Affiliate in Research at Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University and a research affiliate of the MIT Center for International Studies. She is also the author of Dying to Forget (Columbia University Press, 2016), Notes From the Minefield (Columbia University Press, 2006) Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017); and co-editor of Crimes of War (Nation Books, 2006).
Robert Vitalis is Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of White World Order, Black Power Politics (Cornell University Press, 2015) and a contributor to Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017).
Thomas Ferguson is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He is the author of Golden Rule (University of Chicago Press, 1995) and Right Turn (Hill and Wang, 1986). He contributed the foreword to Irene L. Gendzier's Development Against Democracy (Pluto, 2017).

Summary

A classic, radical study of development via US foreign policy from the post-war period

Product details

• Authors: Irene L. Gendzier, Gendzier Irene L.
• Assisted by: Ferguson Thomas (Foreword), Vitalis Robert (Introduction)
• Publisher: Pluto
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2017
• EAN: 9780745337296
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-3729-6
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); World, Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Developing & Emerging Countries, International Relations, Developing Countries, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Political structures: democracy, Development Studies, Political ideologies and movements, For higher / tertiary / university education