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Harvard University Press Adventures in Chaos: American Intervention for Reform in the Third World

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Can―or should―the United States try to promote reform in client states in the Third World? This question, which reverberates through American foreign policy, is at the heart of Adventures in Chaos. A faltering friendly state, in danger of falling to hostile forces, presents the U.S. with three options: withdraw, bolster the existing government, or try to reform it. Douglas Macdonald defines the circumstances that call these policy options into play, combining an analysis of domestic politics in the U. S., cognitive theories of decision making, and theories of power relations drawn from sociology, economics, and political science. He examines the conditions that promote the reformist option and then explores strategies for improving the success of reformist intervention in the future. In order to identify problems in this policy―and to propose solutions―Macdonald focuses on three case studies of reformist intervention in Asia: China, 1946-1948; the Philippines, 1950-1953; and Vietnam, 1961-1963. Striking similarities in these cases suggest that such policy dilemmas are a function of the global role played by the U.S., especially during the Cold War. Though this role is changing, Macdonald foresees future applications for the lessons his study offers. A challenge to the conventional wisdom on reformist intervention, Adventures in Chaos―through extensive archival research―displays a theoretical and historical depth often lacking in treatments of the subject.

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Brand: Harvard University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0674005775
Category: Books > Subjects > History > Asia > China
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 01 October 1992
Listed Since: 17 October 2006

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