Third world revolutionary social change and United States intervention during the Cold War

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.