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Political Development
in Emerging Nations: Is There Still a Third World?
By Howard J. Wiarda
$28.95
Wadsworth/Thomson
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Book reviews Third World development
Political Developments in Emerging
Nations reviews what has been learned about national development
in the Third World in the past 50 years. It is written by Howard
Wiarda, Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and head
of the international affairs department at UGA.
Wiarda surveys all the major themes, theories and current hot-button
issues in the field: how and why we became interested in the Third
World; the contributions of economics, sociology, anthropology and
political science to the field of developmental studies; the main
literature in the field and the criticisms of it; and the disillusionment
with developmentalism and the rise of alternative explanatory paradigms
such as dependency theory, bureaucratic-authoritarianism, organic
statism and corporatism.
These chapters are followed by ones on the Asian success stories
(the newly industrialized countries) and their implications, the
“third wave” of democratization in the developing areas;
neo-liberalism, its critics and the “end of history”
thesis; and globalization and its multifaceted impact. A conclusion
pulls these diverse themes together and explains why some countries
are making it in the 21st-century modern world and others are not.
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