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 US 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 US, 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 US, especially during the Cold War. Though this role is changing, Macdonald forsees future applications for the lessons his study offers.
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quid pro quo bargaining approach, bolstering policy, bolstering approach, promissory stage, reformist intervention, redistributive reforms, intense political instability, embassy team, pro quo approach, elite reforms, external reformer, pagoda raids, bargaining behavior, client nations, counterinsurgency plan, internal reformer, reformist periods, behavioral commitments, client government, rightist regimes, blitzkrieg strategy, client society, ican policy Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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