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Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and US Foreign Policy
Ethan B. Kapstein
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Description for Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and US Foreign Policy
paperback. This book analyses American interventions in the developing world, asking what can be done to reduce their economic and human cost. Num Pages: 280 pages, 1 b/w illus. 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Under what conditions do the governments of developing countries manage to reform their way out of political and economic instability? When are they instead overwhelmed by the forces of social conflict? What role can great powers play in shaping one outcome or the other? This book is among the first to show in detail how the United States has used foreign economic policy, including foreign aid, as a tool for intervening in the developing world. Specifically, it traces how the United States promoted land reform as a vehicle for producing political stability. By showing where that policy proved stabilizing, and ... Read more
Under what conditions do the governments of developing countries manage to reform their way out of political and economic instability? When are they instead overwhelmed by the forces of social conflict? What role can great powers play in shaping one outcome or the other? This book is among the first to show in detail how the United States has used foreign economic policy, including foreign aid, as a tool for intervening in the developing world. Specifically, it traces how the United States promoted land reform as a vehicle for producing political stability. By showing where that policy proved stabilizing, and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
316
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781316636640
SKU
V9781316636640
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About Ethan B. Kapstein
Ethan B. Kapstein holds the Arizona Centennial Chair at Arizona State University, where he is affiliated with the McCain Institute for International Leadership, and is also Associate Director of the Empirical Studies of Conflict Program, based at Princeton University. He is co-author (with John Busby) of AIDS Drugs for All: Social Movements and Market Transformations (Cambridge, 2013), which won the ... Read more
Reviews for Seeds of Stability: Land Reform and US Foreign Policy
'Kapstein's ambitious study represents a landmark contribution to the study of US post-war intervention in the developing world. Focusing on economic reform - and especially land reform - Kapstein shows through meticulous archival work and riveting case studies that the US sought to promote reform in an effort stabilize friendly governments and stem peasant uprisings. The book is a must-read ... Read more