American Foreign Policy and Postwar Reconstruction: Comparing Japan and Iraq (Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy)

by JeffBridoux (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $98.69

  Provides a comparison of the reconstruction of Japan from 1945 to 1952 with the reconstruction of Iraq, evaluating the key factors affecting the success or failure of such projects. This book seeks to understand why American officials believed that extensive social reengineering aiming at seeding democracy and economic development is replicable.