Understanding Third World Politics
Although human development remains a severe challenge for poor coun- tries, variations in levels occur between developing countr ...
required political commitment as well as competent and accountable public services this was interpreted as a need for democratiz ...
some experts to threaten the very survival of the political system as a plu- ralist democracy (Chiriyankandath, 1994, p. 32). To ...
others prefer ‘underdeveloped’, a concept that has taken on a very specific meaning and which, as we shall see later, denotes a ...
coined the term in the early 1950s. However, there is also the view that it should have been translated as ‘Third Force’ because ...
solidarity against the continuing intervention and involvement of the pow- erful economies in the developing economies and polit ...
was taken up by the United Nations and the World Bank in 1992, both argu- ing for the liberalization of global markets and a red ...
The number of poor people in Latin America and the Caribbean increased by 20 per cent. If a relative rather than absolute measur ...
economic affluence or diplomatic orientation. What distinguishes member- ship of the Third World is the lack of consensus over t ...
Nor has the Third World’s experience of globalization been uniform. It has been argued that the ‘globalization’ of market econom ...
economic interests of particular regions, for example, the Central American Common Market, the Latin American Free Trade Associa ...
World societies often appear to have more in common with Western élites than with their own dispossessed masses (Berger, 1994, p ...
processes that were arrested in the past, are discouraging and uncertain at present, and are likely to be unprecedented in the f ...
underdevelopment and the consequences of contacts between rich and poor countries will form the substance of later chapters. Bef ...
2 Theories of Imperialism and Colonialism Introduction An examination of the politics of underdevelopment must start with a con- ...
Imperialism should not, however, be equated with colonialism. Colonialism, meaning the annexation and direct government of one c ...
there is far too large a body of literature to do justice to here. Only the most influential thinkers can be dealt with and even ...
motivated by the transformation from competitive into monopoly capitalism (Cohen, B. J., 1973, pp. 23–31; Brewer, 1980, ch. 1; M ...
Ireland’s function was to supply raw materials, cheap labour, a market for manufactured goods and land for safe investment. The ...
surplus which could not be reinvested in the domestic European economies because local demand was insufficient to make that inve ...
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