Mark T Berger, Heloise Weber

Rethinking the Third World (eBook, PDF)

International Development and World Politics

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A systematic reassessment, by two leading figures in the field, of the paradigm of international development in both theory and practice. It offers an overview and critique of development theory and strategy, and a new framework for the analysis of global inequality, poverty and development in an era of globalization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137441126
• Artikelnr.: 62943984

Autorenporträt

Dr. Mark T. Berger is Director of the US-México Security-Development Partnership Project and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: International Development, World Politics and Global
Modernity 2. Global Modernity and International Development: The Origins of
the Third World 3. Third World Rising: Decolonization, the Cold War and
Third Worldism 4. The Golden Age of Third Worldism: International
Development, the Cold War and the Contradictions of Global Modernity 5.
Third Worldism in Decline: International Development, the End of the Cold
War and the Crisis of Global Modernity 6. The Resurrection of
Nation-Building and Modernization: Security and International Development
in the Third World after the Cold War 7. A New Agenda for Negotiating
Global Modernity: A Regional Development-Security Framework After Third
Worldism 8. Conclusion: Rethinking the Third World.