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Summary:

In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. Since the '70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival--in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. In his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad "has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today's global situation and standoff." The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.

Table of Contents:

• The demise of Atlantic liberalism
• The conundrums of the South
• The locomotives of the South
• A dream history of the Global South.

Author/Creator:

Prashad, Vijay

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The poorer nations: a possible history of the Global South [by Prashad, V.]

Subjects:

Developing countries — Economic policy

Developing countries — Foreign economic relations

Neoliberalism — Developing countries — History

Developing countries — History

Economic policy

International economic relations

Neoliberalism

Developing countries

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

viii, 292 pages ; 22 cm

Call Numbers:

HC59.7 .P7145 2012

ISBNs:

9781844679522 (hbk, alk. paper)
1844679527 (hbk, alk. paper)
9781844679539 (ebook) [Invalid]
1844679535 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2012036260

OCLC Numbers:

783162759