> It is important to remember the virtually complete absence of such
> chastity was at the core of the re-construction of Europe and Asia in
> the immediate post-war period. The most obvious cases of Japan,
> Germany, China and Eastern Europe shouldn't require any
> elaboration---neither should Latin America for that matter. And in
> fact the entire cold war was conducted between East and West using a
> vast range of methods and strategies to manipulate theoretically
> sovereign countries including the detailed configurations of their
> internal political and economic institutions.
This is a sweeping generalisation, IMO. There was something called Non-Aligned Movement. Countries like India and Yugoslavia were sovereign countries not merely theoretically, but in reality as well. This reality included both their foreign policy and configurations of their internal and economic institutions.
Ulhas