Growth against Democracy: Savage Developmentalism in the Modern
World, by H.L.T. Quan is a compelling interrogation of the ways in
which we have thought about modernity, capitalism, and democracy,
and how those ideas inform neoliberal economics, diplomacy, and
impact human life. To explicate contemporary theories of
development, Quan introduces the concept of "savage
developmentalism," with its attendant distortions of the ideals of
equality and freedom and assumptions that foment antidemocratic
social and political forms. By outlining the pitfalls of
security-obsessed developmental approaches, Growth against
Democracy troubles the simple notion that modernity is inherently
superior and development will benefit everyone. It shows how
capitalists' needs for market, finance, and profitability often
lead to development programs that engender expansionism,
dispossession, and repression. Drawing on political theory,
international political economy, critical ethnic studies, legal
studies, and feminist analytics, this groundbreaking study
exemplifies how multi-disciplinary scholarship best addresses the
increasingly complex and multi-layered issues facing humanity
today. It analyzes the linkages between development and national
security, and provides sustained attention to the making of foreign
policy, the development of capitalism and corporate globalization.
The book highlights three critical examples of where savage
developmentalism has eventuated worse living conditions, severe
social repression, and displacement: Brazilian-Japanese economic
relations in Brazil under military rule (1964-1985); China's
aggressive courting of African good will and resources; and, the
United States' reconstruction of Iraq. These three major historical
cases represent some of the most momentous global development in
the last sixty years, and never before have such powerful cases
been analyzed in the same monograph. Growth against Democracy helps
re-evaluate the promises of progress, security, and freedom, and
broadens our ideas about and priorities for humane public policy at
the national and global levels.
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