POG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dependency Theory, Ethnocentrism, Neocolonialism

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 100
• Professor: Patrice Dutil

Document Summary

Developing countries (aka developing world, third world, global south): low gdp, low economic product, impoverished quality of life, middle class rising (changing politics: world bank definition: dependence on agriculture, debt, prone to natural disasters, in military conflict. The north-south split: refers to the first and the third worlds, not really to latitude: first world: us and russia, second world: canada, third world: latin america, asia, Characteristics of developing countries: dependent on agriculture and primary product exports (ex. Oil, metals, wood: products manufactured abroad, manufactured products then imported, resource curse . Countries with natural resources are often the poorest (question of where the actual profits go) Fragmented political culture: there is very little sense of a national purpose, typically products of the colonial period, countries made up artificially don"t make a national state, often at war. Independence: latin america (by 1823), middle east (after wwi), africa and.