Seeds of stability: land reform and U.S. foreign policy

Abstract

Introduction -- Grievance theory and U.S. foreign policy -- The strategy of reformist intervention -- Land to the tiller in the early Cold War: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Italy -- Land reform as counterinsurgency policy: the Philippines and South Vietnam -- Land reform and social revolution in Latin America: 1952-1990 -- Iran: did land reform backfire? -- Land and conflict in the 21st century -- The future of reformist intervention