The Third World in the Age of Globalisation; Requiem or New Agenda?

by Roy Ash Narain

• ISBN13: 9781856497961
• ISBN10: 1856497968
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-08-12
• Publisher: Zed Books

Summary

In the new unipolar world of globalization, the bargaining power and sense of solidarity of Third World countries have never been weaker. But their shared problems, this author argues, remain a reality which requires political expression. Does the Third World still even exist? What role, if any, can it have in the 21st century's new topography of power? Roy Ash Narain explores modern Latin American history, with emphasis on the changes wrought in the 1980s and 90s in the context of the continent's wider relations with the Third World and the USA.

Author Biography

Ash Narain Roy is currently Assistant Editor at The Hindustan Times, New Delhi.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction
Explanatory Paradigm	3	(3)
The Third World and its Vision	6	(8)
Outline of the book	14	(4)
Latin America: Old States of the Third World
Smiling Mask	18	(2)
New World, Old States	20	(7)
Oligarchy, the Military and Revolution	27	(3)
Regional Economic Integration	30	(5)
Peaceful Vocation	35	(2)
Theology of Liberation	37	(6)
Latin America and the United States: Geographic Fatalism
Inter-American System	43	(5)
Pilot-Fish Behaviour	48	(3)
`New' Latin American Foreign Policy	51	(1)
Third Worldism under Perez, Echeverria and Velasco	52	(5)
Latin Leaders Speak Gringo	57	(9)
Latin America and the Non-Aligned Movement: The Achilles Heel
Defining Non-Alignment	66	(3)
Historic Context	69	(3)
Latin America's Isolation	72	(4)
Latin-Americanization of NAM	76	(4)
Mexican, Argentine Models	80	(8)
The World Order Changeth: Agenda for the 21st Century
Paradigm Shifts	88	(4)
Images of the New World Order `Yes, You are the Superpower'; Dance of the Dinosaurs; Clash of Civilisations Thesis; End of Geography Model; One Planet, Two Worlds	92	(15)
The Future of the Third World: Requiem or New Agenda?
The Third World in Retreat	107	(4)
Latin America and the Third World Drifting Apart	111	(2)
Structural Vulnerabilities	113	(3)
Agenda for the 21st Century	116	(12)
Bibliography	128	(7)
Index	135