Seeds of Stability Land Reform and US Foreign Policy

1. Introduction; Part I. From Grievance Theory to Reformist Intervention: 2. Grievance theory and US foreign policy; 3. The strategy of reformist intervention; Part II. Promoting Land Reform: Success and Failure: 4. Land to the tiller in the early Cold War: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Italy; 5. Land reform as counterinsurgency policy: the Philippines and South Vietnam; 6. Land reform and social revolution in Latin America: 1952-90; 7. Iran: did land reform backfire?; Part III. Looking Ahead: 8. Land and conflict in the twenty-first century; 9. The future of reformist intervention.