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Accepted Paper:

The decade of development in Latin America and beyond  
Stella Krepp (University of Bern)

Paper short abstract:

The paper traces debates on development models and ideas of progress in the 1960s in Latin America, as well as analyses its impact and diffusion in the wider Third World, particularly the Non-Aligned Movement.

Paper long abstract:

John F. Kennedy himself heralded the 1960s as a 'decade of development' for Latin America and thus provided one of the key concepts of the decade. But how, Latin Americans asked themselves, were they going to achieve economic and social development? Consequently, a battle erupted on the 'real road to development', as Ernesto Che Guevara famously phrased in 1961, and whether reform, a socialist revolution, or independent policies would provide the solution.

This paper examines these emerging ideas of progress, modernity, and development in the 'development decade', amongst others Cepalismo, Modernisation and the Cuban revolutionary model, and how they were discussed in the inter-American system. Furthermore, it also enquires if and how these visions were diffused and received in the wider context of the Third World, and particularly in the Non-Aligned Bloc, and how they interlinked with anti-colonial discourses.

Panel P08
South-South cooperation in the context of crisis: the role of Latin America and the Caribbean in the global South
  Session 1