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Adventures in Chaos

American Intervention for Reform in the Third World

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HARDCOVER

$96.00 • £76.95 • €86.50

ISBN 9780674005778

Publication Date: 01/01/1992

Short

376 pages

6-3/8 x 9-1/4 inches

2 tables

World

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  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. America and the Third World
    • 1. American Policy toward the Third World
    • 2. The Politics of Oscillation
    • 3. The Perils and Paradoxes of Reformist Intervention
  • II. China, 1946–1948
    • 4. The Marshall Mission, 1946
    • 5. Reform’s Last Hurrah, 1947–1948
  • III. The Philippines, 1950–1953
    • 6. Saving the Philippine Republic, 1950–1951
    • 7. A New Government, despite Washington, 1952–1953
  • IV. Vietnam, 1961–1963
    • 8. The New Commitment to Diem, 1961
    • 9. Successes and Failures, 1962–1963
  • Conclusion: Bargaining in Chaos
  • Notes
  • Index

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