Understanding Third World Politics
Understanding Third World Politics

Author: Brian Clive Smith

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780253342171

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Praise for the first edition: "... this masterful and concise volume overviews the range of approaches social scientists have applied to explain events in the Third World." --Journal of Developing Areas Understanding Third World Politics is a comprehensive, critical introduction to political development and comparative politics in the non-Western world today. Beginning with an assessment of the shared factors that seem to determine underdevelopment, B. C. Smith introduces the major theories of development--development theory, modernization theory, neo-colonialism, and dependency theory--and examines the role and character of key political organizations, political parties, and the military in determining the fate of developing nations. This new edition gives special attention to the problems and challenges faced by developing nations as they become democratic states by addressing questions of political legitimacy, consensus building, religion, ethnicity, and class.

Dependency and Development
Dependency and Development

Author: Ted C. Lewellen

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1995-06-30

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13:

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This book draws upon data and theories from economics, political science, anthropology, demography, and environmental studies to provide a broad interdisciplinary overview of the Third World. A brief history shows how the expansion of Europe in the 15th century created dependencies in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Third World is shown to be not a natural or innate phenomenon, but a consequence of its relationship to the First World that involved economic dependency, rapid population growth, inflated and internationally supplied militaries, and governments trying to provide attractive investment climates for huge multinational corporations. Traditional agriculture, world markets, models of development, human rights violations, environmental degradation, and the demographic transition are examined from a balanced theoretical perspective that synthesizes modernization and dependency approaches.

The Dependency Movement
The Dependency Movement

Author: Robert A. Packenham

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 9780674198111

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In the first comprehensive scholarly treatment of dependency theory, Robert Packenham describes its origins, substantive claims, and methods. He analyzes the movement comparatively and sociologically as a significant episode in inter-American and North-South cultural relations. In his account, the positive intellectual contributions of dependency ideas, as well as their role in the costly politicization of U.S. scholarship, become evident and comprehensible.

Dependency Theory Revisited
Dependency Theory Revisited

Author: B.N. Ghosh

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-07-15

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 135173993X

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This title was first published in 2001. An important critical study of the theories of dependency both past and present. Since the theories of dependency are based on the Marxian notion of exploitation and backwardness, the book starts with the elaboration of the Marxian theory of development and underdevelopment. The book analyses various concepts and precepts of dependency as well as critically discussing the individual theories of Baran, Frank, Amin, Emmanuel, Prebisch and Singer. The contributions of more recent writers including Furtado, Kay, Wallerstein and Marini are also considered. The main focus of the book lies in the thorough analysis of all the important traditional as well as modern theories of dependency. The main message of the present book is that the phenomenology of dependency is still relevant as a methodology of study of development and underdevelopment. The book incorporates some pressing contemporary issues to give fresh flavour to the old dependency debate. A special feature of the book lies in the critical appraisal for each of the theories studied. The book is designed to serve as a valuable compendium for students of economic development and political economy and for those interested in the study of the economic backwardness of the Third World countries.

Dependency Theory and the Return of High Politics
Dependency Theory and the Return of High Politics

Author: Mary Ann Tetreault

Publisher: Praeger

Published: 1986-04-22

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13:

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Dependency theory and the return of high politics / Mary Ann Tétreautt and Charles Frederick Abel -- Models, metaphors, and foreign policy / Mary Ann Tétreautt -- Dependency: history, theory, and reappraisal / Kenneth E. Bauzon and Charles Frederick Abel -- Structure and dynamics in international interdependence / Mark J. Gasiorowski -- Incorporation into the world economy: empirical tests of dependency theory / Leonard Paul Hirsch -- U.S. policy toward Central America during the Carter and Reagan administrations / Royce Q. Shaw -- Cameroon agricultural policy: the struggle to remain food self-sufficient / Virginia DeLancey -- The Moon Treaty and the Tragedy of the Commons: an examination of rational decision making in international relations / Larry S. Luton -- High politics or interdependence? The United States and Saudi Arabia in the post-embargo era / Mary Ann Tétreautt -- Toward transformation of dependency and high politics / Craig N. Murphy.

Persistent Poverty
Persistent Poverty

Author: George L. Beckford

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 9789766400743

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This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of plantations to Third World economies and the contribution that George Beckford made to Caribbean economic thought.

Third World Political Ecology
Third World Political Ecology

Author: Sinead Bailey

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-08

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1134798032

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An effective response to contemporary environmental problems demands an approach that integrates political, economic and ecological issues. Third World Political Ecology provides an introduction to an exciting new research field that aims to develop an integrated understanding of the political economy of environmental change in the Third World. The authors review the historical development of the field, explain what is distinctive about Third World political ecology, and suggest areas for future development. Clarifying the essentially politicised condition of environmental change today, the authors explore the role of various actors - states, multilateral institutions, businesses, environmental non-governmental organisations, poverty-stricken farmers, shifting cultivators and other 'grassroots' actors - in the development of the Third World's politicised environment. Third World Political Ecology is the first major attempt to explain the development and characteristics of environmental problems that plague parts of Asia, Africa and Latin America. Drawing on examples from throughout the Third World, the book will be of interest to all those who wish to understand the political and economic bases of the Third World's current predicament.