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Global Transformation and the Third World

Robert O. Slater, Barry M. Schutz, and Steven R. Dorr, editors
 
ISBN: 978-1-55587-383-7
$22.00
1993/380 pages/LC: 92-26100

"A well organized and systematic collection of articles that includes valuable contributions from a number of leading scholars in the field."—The Journal of Politics

"An excellent volume. . . . This is the Third World Politics reader I have been looking for for over a decade."—T. David Mason

DESCRIPTION

Much has been written already about the changed international system of the 1990s, projecting the configuration of a restructured Europe, the future role of the former Soviet republics and the United States, and the emergence of a multipolar world with or without a dominant hegemon. In the search for new structures and explanations, however, it is too often assumed in error that these apply to what we label the "Third World" in the same way that they do to the "North" or the "West."

This book explores the phenomenon of global transformation in the context of the Third World, looking specifically at the preference for more democratic political systems, the emergence of a new international economic order, and the changing forms of conflict, its mitigation, and its resolution. The authors provide major theoretical analyses of these three trends, as well as in-depth case studies that explore specific developments.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert O. Slater is deputy director for programs at the National Security Education Program. Barry M. Schutz is Foreign Affairs Specialist in the office of Peacekeeping, U.S. Department of Defense. Slater and Schutz are coeditors of Revolution and Political Change in the Third World. Steven R. Dorr is director of programs at the Defense Intelligence College; he is a specialist in Gulf affairs.

CONTENTS

  • THE RESTRUCTURING OF WORLD POLITICS.
  • Introduction—the Editors.
  • A World Without Leninism—Kenneth Jowitt.
  • DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE THIRD WORLD.
  • The Globalization of Democracy—Larry Diamond.
  • Changing Civil-Military Relations—Claude E. Welch.
  • Latin America—Karen L. Remmer.
  • China—Thomas Bernstein.
  • The Middle East—Steven R. Dorr.
  • EMERGING GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE.
  • Vision and Politics in the Transformation of the Global Political Economy—Thomas R. Callaghy.
  • Global Economic Transformation and LDCs—Michael Dolan.
  • Big Little Japan—Danny Unger.
  • CONFLICT AND ITS RESOLUTION.
  • Conflict and Change in the International System—Robert O. Slater.
  • Changing Forms of Conflict Mitigation—I. William Zartman.
  • The Role of Region in a Restructured Global System—Barry M. Schutz.
  • CONCLUSION—the Editors.
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