...-profile projects elsewhere, like the Aswan Dam, “it was only in Africa that the USSR could shape the entirety of a modernization strategy, at least outside the socialist world.” After recounting this saga in such striking detail, Iandolo asks a provocative question: “Would approaches different from...

... modernization class theory actors guerillas non-state dictatorship despotism Thirty years ago, authoritarian governments ruled most of Latin America. Some re-gimes especially those confronting left- ist insurgencies in Central America killed with impunity, safe in the knowledge that the United States...

... of California Lilia Shevtsova Russia Vladimir Putin Dmitri Medvedev Vladislav Surkov liberalization modernization Siloviki corruption Levada Center 275 Russia is experiencing a dramatic moment in its history. The deadly wildfires and tox-ic smog that spread across the country this summer...