title: A rivalidade entre Estados Unidos e União Soviética e a promoção do desenvolvimento na periferia global
abstract: The current article aims to analyze instrumental aspects from the “Modernization theory” and the “Non-capitalist development theory” underlying development aid programs respectively from United States and Soviet Union during the Cold War. Both theories were elaborated as a response to the growing systemic rivalry between superpowers and in synchrony with their respective and distinct geopolitical objectives. However, it is argued that despite the rivalry between superpowers there were substantia
journal: Textos de Economia