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Modernization and Cold War Politics: Seminar questions

1. What was your favourite sentence from the reading?

2. Why was India strategically important to US-led postwar development?

3. What is ‘modernization theory’? What is the relationship between modernization theory and postwar US-led international development?

4. Why is economics so central to postwar development thinking?

5. What is the relationship between modernization and colonialism?