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Klappentext This book examines the historical forces that have shaped contemporary politics in the Global South! drawing from events in Asia! Latin America! and Africa. It provides insights on internal political processes and the international system and contributes an elemental theory of political development. Zusammenfassung This book examines the historical forces that have shaped contemporary politics in the Global South! drawing from events in Asia! Latin America! and Africa. It provides insights on internal political processes and the international system and contributes an elemental theory of political development. Introduction: Power versus Powerlessness Chapter One: Asia: A Bifurcated Empowerment Chapter Two: Latin America: From "Backwater" of the US to an Emerging Bolivarian Counterforce Chapter Three: Powerlessness and Slavocracy Chapter Four: Realism, Liberalism, and the Intractable Case of Western Farm Subsidies Chapter Five: The Improbable Banana Conflict of the 1990s Between the US and the EU, Its Repercussions for Weak Countries, and the WTO's Role in It
