Promises Not Kept

by Isbister, John

• ISBN13: 9781565490451
• ISBN10: 1565490452
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-06-01
• Publisher: Kumarian Pr

Author Biography

John Isbister is a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fifth Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Fourth Edition	p. x
Preface to the Third Edition	p. xii
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xiii
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiv
Introduction	p. 1
A World of Poverty	p. 7
Five Lives	p. 7
The Third World	p. 15
The Extent of World Poverty	p. 16
The Successes	p. 23
Different Areas of the Third World Diverge	p. 24
The Betrayal of Responsibility	p. 26
Explanations of Underdevelopment	p. 31
Modernization Theory	p. 33
Dependency Theory	p. 42
Marxism	p. 50
Limitations of These Approaches	p. 57
Why Does Poverty Persist?	p. 59
Assessment	p. 61
The Theories as World Views	p. 63
Imperialism	p. 66
The Creation of the European Empires	p. 67
The Causes of Imperialism	p. 76
The Culture of Imperialism	p. 80
The Foundations of Third World Poverty	p. 86
The Population Explosion	p. 96
The Legacy of Imperialism	p. 98
Nationalism and Independence	p. 101
The Origins of Third World Nationalism	p. 102
The Indian Subcontinent	p. 106
China	p. 109
Vietnam	p. 113
Algeria	p. 118
Muslim and Jewish Nationalism and the Dilemma of the Middle East	p. 121
Sub-Saharan Africa	p. 127
Latin America	p. 131
The Nationalist Identity	p. 137
The Legacy of Nationalism	p. 140
Economic Development	p. 145
What Is Economic Development?	p. 146
Population Control	p. 151
False Paths to Economic Development	p. 156
Development in the 1980s: Waylaid by the Debt Crisis	p. 177
The 1990s: Rediscovering the Market and Exports	p. 180
Foreign Policy	p. 188
The End of the Cold War	p. 189
Foreign Policy During the Cold War: Globalism	p. 190
The Decline in U.S. Hegemony	p. 192
The Illusion of the North-South Dialogue	p. 196
Options in the Post-Cold War World	p. 199
Military Spending and Policy	p. 203
Human Rights Policy	p. 212
Foreign Economic Policy	p. 217
Can the Rich Cooperate with the Poor?	p. 224
Into the Future	p. 227
Development in a World of Limits	p. 228
A Hope for Partnership	p. 233
Bibliography	p. 239
Acknowledgments	p. 247
Index	p. 249
About the Author	p. 267
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