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Adalet - Hotels and Highways [ac66b7a2]

Tags: books, turkey, middle east, development theory

  • Conrad Hilton - Cairo held "the key to Africa and the Middle East" - p 1

  • Early phases of the cold war gave Americans endless opportunities

    • Same for Iraq development like dujayla land project
    • Truman's "underdeveloped areas" and Kennedy's "Development Decade" in the 1960's

  • Turkey served as both the template Modernization theory was based on and the object on which it was enacted - p. 3

    • 3 parts, fact gathering, theory development, and experimentation

  • Postwar consolidation of American hegemony rested on the active construction of geography of development - p 5

    • Turkey was an example for the rest of the underdeveloped middle east
    • Shared ideaology among DP and Republican People's Party even as the DP took power
  • Treated with gloves by the western states, ignored nationalism (Nationalism and Outsiders in the Middle East - Midterm) because Turkey was supposedly modernizing
  • development theory brought along a positivist orientation: knowledge existed in the world, understanding said knowledge would allow them to harness the world
  • Experts had to package development theory for it to be replicated
  • Ankara University teachers exerted active push and pull like described in Humanism in Ruins - Discussion Questions
  • development theory was not internally consistent