American foundations and the development of international knowledge networks

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ID4263246
AuthorsInderjeet Parmar (0000-0001-8688-9020, Government of the United Kingdom, corresponding author)
Year2002
Volume2
Issue1
Pages13-30
Publication date2002-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobal Networks (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1470-2266 • E-ISSN: 1471-0374
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1471-0374.00024
OpenAlexW2159187165
LanguageEN
Citations received41

This article examines the role and influence of three American foundations - Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford - in developing international knowledge networks that significantly impacted upon the Third World, helping to consolidate US hegemony after 1945, fostering pro-US values, methods and research institutions. The international networks were modelled on prior domestic initiatives resulting in the effective intellectual hegemony of 'liberal internationalism', of empirical scientific research methods, and of policy-oriented studies. Such domestic hegemony constructed a key basis of America's rise to globalism, which after 1945 required a continuing and enhanced foundation role, especially with the onset of the Cold War. The article, which examines the role of the US foundations in relation to intellectual hegemony construction in Latin America, Indonesia, and Africa, concludes that the evidence is best explained by Gramscian theory, and calls for further empirical research in this vital area

Empirical research · Epistemology · Foundation (evidence) · Globalism · Globalization · Hegemony · International relations · Internationalism (politics) · Latin Americans · Political economy · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Elite Sociology and Global Capitalism · Law · Political theory and Gramsci

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