β Scribed by Robert O. Slater (editor); Barry M. Schutz (editor); Steven R. Dorr (editor)
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The authors explore the phenomenon of global transformation in the context of the Third World, looking specifically at three fundamental manifestations--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.
Contents
Preface
PART 1 THE RESTRUCTURING OF WORLD POLITICS
1 Introduction: Toward a Better Understanding of Global Transformation and the Third World
2 A World Without Leninism
PART 2 DEMOCRATIZATION AND THE THIRD WORLD
3 The Globalization of Democracy
4 Changing Civil-Military Relations
5 Democratization in Latin America
6 Democratization in China
7 Democratization in the Middle East
PART 3 EMERGING GLOBAL ECONOMIC INTERDEPENDENCE
8 Vision and Politics in the Transformation of the Global Political Economy: Lessons from the Second and Third Worlds
9 Global Economic Transformation and Less Developed Countries
10 Big Little Japan
PART 4 CONFLICT AND ITS RESOLUTION
11 Conflict and Change in the International System
12 Changing Forms of Conflict Mitigation
13 The Role of Region in a Restructured Global System
PART 5 CONCLUSIONS
14 Global Transformation and the Third World: Challenges and Prospects
About the Contributors
Index
About the Book
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