| This research elaborates the relationship between US intervention and Third World socioeconomic revolutionary social change in the Cold War period. First, we formulate primary hypotheses based upon a world systems perspective, which expect a causal relationship between US intervention and Third World revolutionary social changes. These hypotheses are statistically tested with a set of 58 post-World War II Third World revolutionary cases of 46 countries. In general, contrary to the expectation, regression results do not indicate a positive association between these variables. More specifically, we have mixed test results; while hypothesis I (the relation between US non-intervention and SER change) was strongly supported by the preliminary empirical test, post-World War II empirical history did not cleanly support hypothesis II (the relation between US intervention and against-SER). While the relation between US intervention against SER regime and failed-SER was supported, the relation between US intervention against SER movement and failed-SER was largely rejected.;In following chapters, we extend our questions to why societies responded in different ways to similar US condition (e.g., intervention or non-intervention). To answer these questions we have selected 17 revolutionary cases from our larger pool of cases previously used for statistical analysis and hypothesized four domestic causal conditions derived from the literature---dependent development, personalist regime type, sharp economic decline, and dissent ideology---and test in a multi-causal framework using Millian logic of method of agreement and method of difference with Boolean technique.;One of the major findings of this research is that even if US intervention has influenced Third World socioeconomic revolutionary social change to a certain extent, it has not been the determinant variable. Rather, US controlling power over the fate of Third World revolution should be understood in combination with various domestic forces. |
