An incisive revisionist study of United States policy toward postcolonial Africa, Asia, and Latin America that argues American action during the Cold War and afterward was driven less by abstract anti-communist ideology than by a desire to secure markets, resources, and geopolitical control. Using detailed case studies of interventions, covert operations, economic pressure, and support for client regimes, the book shows how policymakers and corporate interests combined to undermine nationalist and socialist movements, substitute informal influence for formal colonial rule, and sustain global capitalism. It documents recurring patterns of military, diplomatic, and economic coercion, contending that these practices perpetuated inequality and blocked independent development in the so-called Third World, and offers a critical reassessment of conventional Cold War narratives by linking state power to corporate expansion.