Third World Instability

Author : Robert A. Packenham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400868667

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Liberal America and the Third World by Robert A. Packenham Pdf

In Europe after World War II, U.S. economic aid helped to ensure economic revival, political stability, and democracy. In the Third World, however, aid has been associated with very different tendencies: uneven political development, violence, political instability, and authoritarian rule in most countries. Despite these differing patterns of political change in Europe and the Third World, however, American conceptions of political development have remained largely constant: democracy, stability, anti-communism. Why did the objectives and theories of U.S. aid officials and social scientists remain largely the same in the face of such negative results and despite the seeming inappropriateness of their ideas in the Third World context? Robert Packenham believes that the thinking of both officials and social scientists was profoundly influenced by the "Liberal Tradition" and its view of the American historical experience. Thus, he finds that U.S. opposition to revolution in the Third World steins not only from perceptions of security needs but also from the very conceptions of development that arc held by Americans. American pessimism about the consequences of revolution is intimately related to American optimism about the political effects of economic growth. In his final chapter the author offers some suggestions for a future policy. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Brian Clive Smith
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0253342171

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Understanding Third World Politics by Brian Clive Smith Pdf

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.

Author : National Intelligence Council
Publisher : Cosimo Reports
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1646794974

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Global Trends 2040 by National Intelligence Council Pdf

"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

Author : Atul Kohli
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400858217

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The State and Development in the Third World by Atul Kohli Pdf

The articles in this volume appeared first in the leading jounial World Politics. The essayists' common concern with the autonomy of the political " in the politics of developing countries contributes to the analytical unity of the volume. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Scott R. Sidell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1349090557

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IMF and Third-World Political Instability by Scott R. Sidell Pdf

Author : S. McBride,L. Dobuzinskis,Marjorie Griffin Cohen,J. Busumtwi-Sam
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789401002516

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Global Instability by S. McBride,L. Dobuzinskis,Marjorie Griffin Cohen,J. Busumtwi-Sam Pdf

Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy presents a series of papers that address the political consequences of globalization for states and their populations, while exploring the issue of alternatives to the model of globalization we are presently experiencing. The focus moves from the world of international agreements to the national and sub-national dilemmas that are posed by attempting to manage a set of global developments within a given territory. The initial chapter, by Daniel Drache, explores a still-born post-war international organization, the International Trade Organization, that offers a different vision of how a globally integrated economy might operate. A number of papers then explore the challenges posed by today's globalization, including currency instability in an environment of financial deregulation, the rights conferred on investors by the North American Free Trade Agreement, and the progressive liberalization of trade in services built into the General Agreement on Trade in Services.

Author : Scott R. Sidell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1988-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349090532

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International Monetary Fund and Third World Political Instability by Scott R. Sidell Pdf

Author : Nicolas Van de Walle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073420213

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Economic Globalization and Political Stability in Developing Countries by Nicolas Van de Walle Pdf

Author : William E. Odom
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0822311828

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On Internal War by William E. Odom Pdf

William E. Odom combines expertise in political science and military affairs to challenge both conventional and unconventional wisdom about insurgencies and political development. The author concludes that in all three components of U.S. strategy for counterinsurgency--political, economic, and military--faulty notions of causation inform policy. U.S. advice to embattled governments fails to recognize the inherent clash of development goals; direct fiscal aid hurts more often than it helps recipient governments; and the focus of U.S. military assistance on fighting insurgents plays to their strengths and fails to exploit their weaknesses. On Internal War reviews the contrasting theory and practice in Soviet and American approaches to their competition in the Third World and relates them to indigenous causes of internal wars. Odom also integrates the military dimensions of insurgencies with external influences and internal politics. Drawing on political development theory, he underscores the sources of instability in Third World states that make insurgencies more likely and offers ways to assess the prospects for democracy in specific cases. The centerpiece of the study is a practical application of the author's analysis to three case studies--El Salvador, Guatemala, and the Philippines--and a regional assessment of the Middle East. Odom provides no panaceas but suggests that more promising strategies can be devised.

Author : Jeffrey G. Kitingan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032772744

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Causes of Political Instability by Jeffrey G. Kitingan Pdf

Author : Monty G. Marshall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015043782435

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Third World War by Monty G. Marshall Pdf

By romanticizing the Cold War as a Olong peace, O we lose perspective on the full range of conflict dynamics that engulfed the lives and livelihoods of people in the Third World. Episodes of violence and human suffering have increased and spread, encompassing ever more states and social groups. Many regions have seen such a serious deterioration of conditions that OnormalO politics are clearly impossible. Third World War examines the patterns of political violence throughout the world during the Cold War and analyzes them collectively as conflict processes within the global system. It shows that warfare was not randomly distributed, but was centered on six protracted conflict regions that together accounted for 80 to 90 percent of all forms of political violence during that time--a magnitude of violence that rivals the destruction of the previous two world wars. Through societal theories of identity, conflict, and development dynamics, supported by a broad range of quantitative evidence, the author explores how armed conflict and the politics of insecurity lead to policy changes, arrested development, and, ultimately, state failure. He concludes with policy implications and a brief assessment of the prospects for peace in the global system.

Author : Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441178299

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Failed States and Institutional Decay by Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz Pdf

What do we mean by failed states and why is this concept important to study? The “failed states” literature is important because it aims to understand how state institutions (or lack thereof) impact conflict, crime, coups, terrorism and economic performance. In spite of this objective, the “failed state” literature has not focused enough on how institutions operate in the developing world. This book unpacks the state, by examining the administrative, security, judicial and political institutions separately. By doing so, the book offers a more comprehensive and clear picture of how the state functions or does not function in the developing world, merging the failed state and institutionalist literatures. Rather than merely describing states in crisis, this book explains how and why different types of institutions deteriorate. Moreover, the book illustrates the impact that institutional decay has on political instability and poverty using examples not only from Africa but from all around the world.

Author : Scott R. Sidell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X001364763

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The IMF and Third-World Political Instability by Scott R. Sidell Pdf

Looks at the period 1969-77 and tries to determine whether the IMF encourages politically destabilising activities through the economic austerity programmes which it supports.

Author : Amy Chua
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400076376

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World on Fire by Amy Chua Pdf

The reigning consensus holds that the combination of free markets and democracy would transform the third world and sweep away the ethnic hatred and religious zealotry associated with underdevelopment. In this revelatory investigation of the true impact of globalization, Yale Law School professor Amy Chua explains why many developing countries are in fact consumed by ethnic violence after adopting free market democracy. Chua shows how in non-Western countries around the globe, free markets have concentrated starkly disproportionate wealth in the hands of a resented ethnic minority. These “market-dominant minorities” – Chinese in Southeast Asia, Croatians in the former Yugoslavia, whites in Latin America and South Africa, Indians in East Africa, Lebanese in West Africa, Jews in post-communist Russia – become objects of violent hatred. At the same time, democracy empowers the impoverished majority, unleashing ethnic demagoguery, confiscation, and sometimes genocidal revenge. She also argues that the United States has become the world’s most visible market-dominant minority, a fact that helps explain the rising tide of anti-Americanism around the world. Chua is a friend of globalization, but she urges us to find ways to spread its benefits and curb its most destructive aspects.

Author : Ali Compaoré,Mr.Montfort Mlachila,Rasmané Ouedraogo,Sandrine Sourouema
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513530055

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The Impact of Conflict and Political Instability on Banking Crises in Developing Countries by Ali Compaoré,Mr.Montfort Mlachila,Rasmané Ouedraogo,Sandrine Sourouema Pdf

While there is an extensive literature examining the economic impact of conflict and political instability, surprisingly there have been few studies on their impact on the probability of banking crises. This paper therefore investigates whether rising conflict and political instability globally over the past several decades led to increased occurrence of banking crises in developing countries. The paper provides strong evidence that conflicts and political instability are indeed associated with higher probability of systemic banking crises. Unsurprisingly, the duration of a conflict is positively associated with rising probability of a banking crisis. Interestingly, the paper also finds that conflicts and political instability in one country can have negative spillover effects on neighboring countries’ banking systems. The paper provides evidence that the primary channel of transmission is the occurrence of fiscal crises following a conflict or political instability.