Western. Security. Policy. Towards. the. Third. World. Robert O'Neill Much of the debate on Third World security issues within NATO states and the councils of the Alliance itself tends to be backwardlooking.
Author: Robert O'Neill
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9781349093281
Category: Political Science
Page: 305
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This is a book of essays in honour of J.D.B.Miller and looks at the relationship between the West and the Third World. It looks especially at the liberal/democratic West in opposition to the communist East and that version of modernity which is represented by the developed capitalist world.
To them the West was the paragon of all civilisation , all culture . ” 11 With this confusion of identities by an individual or group caught between two cultures , we reach one of the crucial problems facing any Third World artist and ...
Author: Roy Armes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520908015
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 381
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This volume is the first fully comprehensive account of film production in the Third World. Although they are usually ignored or marginalized in histories of world cinema," Third World countries now produce well over half of the world’s films. Roy Armes sets out initially to place this huge output in a wider context, examining the forces of tradition and colonialism that have shaped the Third World--defined as those countries that have emerged from Western control but have not fully developed their economic potential or rejected the capitalist system in favor of some socialist alternative. He then considers the paradoxes of social structure and cultural life in the post-independence world, where even such basic concepts as "nation," "national culture," and "language" are problematic. The first experience of cinema for such countries has invariably been that of imported Western films, which created the audience and, in most cases, still dominate the market today. Thus, Third World film makers have had to ssert their identity against formidable outside pressures. The later sections of the book look at their output from a number of angles: in terms of the stages of overall growth and corresponding stages of cinematic development; from the point of view of regional evolution in Asia, Africa, and Latin America; and through a detailed examination of the work of some of the Third World’s most striking film innovators. In addition to charting the broad outlines of filmic developments too little known in Europe and the United States, the book calls into question many of the assumptions that shape conventional film history. It stresse the role of distribution in defining and limiting production, queries simplistic notions of independent "national cinemas," and points to the need to take social and economic factors into account when considering authorship in cinema. Above all, the book celebrates the achievements of a mass of largely unknown film makers who, in difficult circumstances, have distinctively expanded our definitions of the art of cinema. Roy Armes, who lives in London, has written nine books on film, his most recent being French Cinema. He spent more than three years researching this volume.
band of true believers viewed southern African problems principally in East- West terms. ... the Commonwealth (with the exception of Canada), and much of the Third World, America was not overly concerned about external pressures.
Author: Richard J. Payne
Publisher: Praeger
ISBN: UOM:39015022249471
Category: Political Science
Page: 264
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The recent and ongoing crises in the Middle East, the Persian Gulf, Central America, and southern Africa have been and continue to be approached in very different ways by the United States and its West European allies. Payne provides a comprehensive analysis of the underlying tensions, as well as cooperation, between the U.S. and NATO countries in out-of-area conflicts. The book maintains that the U.S. must adapt its foreign policy to a new international order, rather than continuing its old political and ideological confrontationalism in the Third World.
Western publishers must take a long-term view of world publishing. This means their policies must permit offering inexpensive access to books and journals for reprinting and translation. There is a feeling in the Third World that ...
Author: Alexis Weedon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351888165
Category: History
Page: 640
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This collection brings together published papers on key themes which book historians have identified as of particular significance in the history of twentieth-century publishing. It reprints some of the best comparative perspectives and most insightful and innovatively presented scholarship on publishing and book history from such figures as Philip Altbach, Lewis Coser, James Curran, Elizabeth Long, Laura Miller, Angus Phillips, Janice Radway, Jonathan Rose, Shafquat Towheed, Catherine Turner, Jay Satterfield, Clare Squires, Eva Hemmungs Wirtén. It is arranged into six sections which examine the internationalisation of publishing businesses, changing notions of authorship, innovation in the design and marketing of books, the specific effects of globalisation on creative property and the book in a multimedia marketplace. Twentieth-century book history attracts an audience beyond the traditional disciplines of librarianship, bibliography, history and literary studies. It will appeal to publishing educators, editors, publishers, booksellers, as well as academics with an interest in media and popular culture.
seeing such concern as a scheme by the developed nations to hamper Third World development — and to support strongly the OPEC oil cartel . A Chinese perceived shift in the East - West balance of power occurred in the mid - 1970s .
Author: Lillian Craig Harris
Publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
ISBN: 0865691428
Category: Business & Economics
Page: 202
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With its vast population and resources, China has far more potential to become a major world power than any other Third World nation. How, then, can it be grouped with the underdeveloped countries of the world? In this original study by outstanding Asian scholars, China's Third World identification is explored in relations to its domestic policies, ideology, strategic and economic imperatives, and positioning in world affairs.
Enlightened self-interest therefore dictates that the Western nations take the lead in shaping collaborative solutions to global problems. To the degree that these solutions succeed in coping with the problems of the West and the Third ...
The rise of ethnic and nationalist conflicts in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have made some Western political analysts to romanticize about the old cold war rivalry. And the third world, made up principally of former ...
Author: James Ciment
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781136596216
Category: History
Page: 720
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This copiously illustrated A-Z reference presents the most in-depth information available about the various conflicts the world has endured, local, regional, and international, since World War II. Some 142 conflicts are discussed and analyzed. The Encyclopedia of Conflict since World War II, with its coverage of all the countries of the world, fills a critical need for clear, comprehensive explanations of events not covered in such detail in any other reference source. Entries end with an extensive bibliography; and the encyclopedia includes maps, chronologies, and a general bibliography, as well as an index designed to make the reader understand the correlation and relationships between individual conflicts.
Changing the Gaze : A View from the Third World While many of the catalysts for this reformulation of security studies emanated from the Western academy in the wake of the post - Cold War era , the insecurities suffered by the third ...
Author: Lloyd Pettiford
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1855675382
Category: Political Science
Page: 180
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Security has long been a central organizing concept of International Relations. Until the 1980s students of the discipline understood its simple essence in terms of the arms race and balances of power. Then, reflecting changes encouraged by both the inter-paradigm debate and the so-called third debate, security underwent radical reconsideration. The many attempts to redefine the concept led to a proliferation of terms such as true security, global security, common security and environmental security. However, these terms have often been used in confusing and contradictory ways. In attempting to help students deal with this confusion, this book outlines the theoretical tools at the disposal of students for their own rethinking of the concept of security. The book will help students wishing to seriously engage with IR's security debate at whatever level, and draws its own conclusions as part of this debate.
The cultural diffusion that occurs in the developing world has a decidedly one-way trajectory: it accentuates the prevalence of Western cultural traits in Third World societies. The underlying causes for this one-way flow of influence ...
Author: Mehran Kamrava
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781134615896
Category: Political Science
Page: 256
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This book is a welcome new edition, which completely updates and revises the very popular first edition, Politics and Society in the Third World. Mehran Kamrava has brought the book in line with the major changes in global politics, and the politics and social issues of the developing world. The book examines key issues such as democratisation: civil society organisations and NGOs, 'political society', state collapse, democratic bargains and transition, consolidation and problems of legitimacy, elections, multi-party politics; industrial development; dependency theory and globalisation; the roles of the IMF and the World Bank, the GATT and other multinational institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; urbanisation; social change; the increasing influence of western values, capital and institutions; political culture: its role and impact in newly democratic developing countries; revolution; and gives more examples from Africa, East Asia and rural societies.