In the unipolar world of globalization, the bargaining power and sense of solidarity of Third World countries have never been weaker. But their shared problems, this book argues, remain a reality which requires political expression. But does the Third World still even exist? What role, if any, can it have in the 21st century's new topography of power? And with what agenda? The book follows these questions with a second theme: Latin America, which has long had to contront how to conduct its relations with an over-mighty neighbour, the USA. It may now be well placed to help developing countries concert together. The author explores modern Latin American history, with emphasis on the changes of the 1980s and 90s in the context of the continent's wider relations with the Third World and the USA. The result is an account of where developing countries are at the end of the 20th century, and how they might seek to reassert themselves in order to defend their interests in the new world order.
In the unipolar world of globalization, the bargaining power and sense of solidarity of Third World countries have never been weaker. But their shared problems, this book argues, remain a reality which requires political expression. But does the Third World still even exist? What role, if any, can it have in the 21st century's new topography of power? And with what agenda? The book follows these questions with a second theme: Latin America, which has long had to contront how to conduct its relations with an over-mighty neighbour, the USA. It may now be well placed to help developing countries concert together. The author explores modern Latin American history, with emphasis on the changes of the 1980s and 90s in the context of the continent's wider relations with the Third World and the USA. The result is an account of where developing countries are at the end of the 20th century, and how they might seek to reassert themselves in order to defend their interests in the new world order.
Preface 1. Introduction 2. Latin America: Old States of the Third World 3. Latin America and the United States: Geographic Fatalism 4. Latin America and the Non-Aligned Movement: The Achilles Heel 5. The World Order Changeth: Agenda for the 21st Century 6. The Future of the Third World: Requiem or New Agenda?
In a globalized world, the bargaining power and sense of solidarity of Third World countries have never been weaker. Looking at Latin America in detail, this is an account of where developing countries are at the turn of the century, and how they might seek to reassert themselves.
Ash Narain Roy is currently assistant editor at the Hindustan Times, New Delhi. In the 1980s he spent some four years at the prestigious Centro de Estudios Internacionales, El Colegio de Mexico as a visiting scholar. He has also been associated with the Third World journal published from Rio de Janeiro and Mexico City. He is the first recipient of the Appan Menon Memorial Award.
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