"Concept and Controversy. Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market" by W. W. Rostow
"Concept and Controversy. Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market" by W. W. Rostow
University of Texas Press | 2003 | ISBN: 029277124X | 485 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
University of Texas Press | 2003 | ISBN: 029277124X | 485 pages | PDF | 10 Mb
Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.
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The issues that Rostow discusses are these:
• The use of air power in Europe in the 1940s
• Working toward a united Europe during the Cold War
• The death of Joseph Stalin and early attempts to end the Cold War o Eisenhower's Open Skies policy
• The debate over foreign aid in the 1950s
• The economic revival of Korea o Efforts to control inflation in the 1960s
• Waiting for democracy in China
• The Vietnam War and Southeast Asian policy
• U.S. urban problems in disadvantaged neighborhoods
• The challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century