Understanding Third World Politics

Coleman’s view that modernization ‘is an open ended process consisting of trends towards increasing structural differentiation l ...

institutions. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that the modernization theo- rists’ perspective on change was determined a ...

So originally developmentalists offered no theory of change. Huntington points out that The Politics of the Developing Areas, fo ...

type of change in one component of a political system (culture, structures, groups, leadership, policies and so on) can be relat ...

When structures are perceived and qualified by their salient functions – when the question is not what a structure is but what i ...

together with American preoccupations with problems of political order at home and abroad, led to subtle changes of emphasis in ...

stability and ‘integration’; what are the relationships between political norms, structures and behaviour; how do new patterns o ...

4 Neo-colonialism and Dependency Constitutional independence The two decades following the Second World War saw the final and mo ...

government was seen by leaders such as Nkwame Nkrumah, the first Prime Minister of Ghana and author of a book entitled Neo-colon ...

The economic basis of neo-colonial politics In dependency theory, as will be shown later, there is the view that imperial- ism h ...

(Rosen and Jones, 1979). For example, between 1985 and 1992 the net transfer from developing to developed countries exceeded US$ ...

peaceful diplomacy and negotiation rather than wars of liberation. Thereafter, politics was seen as the concern of an internally ...

Organizations representing external interests were able successfully to contain the range of policy and ideological choices open ...

largest corporations in the country of operations, were influential in the social and cultural life of the host country as well ...

power-sharerswith imperial interests. Import–exporters tied to foreign markets, shipping and credits are likely to be dependent ...

vital aid if the neo-colonial governments fail to adopt policies favouring the interests of the donor government or firms based ...

volume of aid in the 1990s. As a percentage of developing countries’ GDP aid fell from 1.4 per cent in 1990 to 0.5 per cent in 2 ...

policies, the adoption of a poverty reduction strategy, and economic adjust- ment and reform programmes to maintain macro-econom ...

Marxist economists such as Dos Santos, Cardoso, Sunkel and Faletto, non- Marxist Latin American economists such as Furtado and P ...

formerly isolated on plantations and haciendas, would become closely incorporated into society through new economic opportunitie ...