Introduction. 1 Development as an ideology for empire : The civilizing mission in the interwar years
Modernity and authoritarian rule
The Second World War. 2 Truman's dream: when the Cold War and development met : Point four
Studying backward areas: social scientists, the Marshall Plan, and the limits of the Cold War. 3 Socialist modernity and the birth of the Third World : Ideology put to the test on the colonial question
The age of neutralism, or the birth of the Third World
Features of socialist aid: constructing the ideological framework
The political economy of socialist cooperation. 4 Western alternatives for development in the global Cold War : The inevitability of foreign aid as a Cold War tool?
An ideology for the global Cold War: the rise of modernization theory
The Kennedy administration: a turning point? 5 The limits of bipolarity in the golden age of modernization : The cooperation imperative in the West
Disappointments: the United States and bickering in the DAC
Rostow and the idea of binding rules
The European economic community way
Coordination among socialist countries: the permanent commission for technical assistance in Comecon - Responding to external challenges. 6 International organizations and development as a global mission : Precedents: the League of Nations
Development as profession after the Second World War
The United Nations and development: the place for an alternative?
Assessing aid at the end of the first development decade. 7 Multiple modernities and socialist alternatives in the 1970s : The Soviet Union reinterprets the two worlds theory
Convergence and interdependence
China's development alternative
Self-reliance? Tanzania between the Tazara Railway and Ujamaa
Third Worldism and the new international economic order. 8 Resources, environment and development: the difficult nexus : The end of technological optimism?
Recasting the problems of modern society
The emergence of global environmentalism: Stockholm, 1972
Environment and development as seen from the East
The legacy of Stockholm and the invention of sustainable development. 9 Responding to the challenges from the global south: north-south dialogues : The birth of basic needs in the second development decade
A regional plan: the Euro-Arab dialogue
North-south dialogue: the global dimension
Development and human rights. 10 The dynamics of the lost decade. Conclusions. Notes
