Adalet - Hotels and Highways

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