POLSCI 2XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ragnar Nurkse, Paul Samuelson, Non-Aligned Movement

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLSCI 2XX3
• Professor: Nibaldo Galleguillos

Document Summary

Identify, explain the meaning and discuss the signifcance: the developing world/third world. Third world = a country that is not capitalist (1st world) and not communist (2nd world) Developing, thirs world underdeveloped, less-developed, backward, traditional, agrarian, dependent, peripheral, the rest, developed, first/second world, developed, advanced, modern, industrial, autonomous, core/center, east/west. Division created during the cold war with reference. Remaining non-aligned as sides the developed us, uk and allied while countries considered to be third world. Post colonial status, dependence of western capitalism and poverty and economic backwardness. The developing world is often also referred to as third world countries. Third world = the political and economic structure of a country not its developmental state of wealth. Developing world = not countries that are primitive, as most would assume. Not countries that are underdeveloped of poor most people think this. These nations were formerly colonized by western powers.