Politicians in Uniform: Military Governments and Social Change in The Third World

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 1078-1097 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Third World ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Military Government ◽  
Covariance Model ◽  
The Third ◽  
Military Regimes ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact

This paper examines three arguments about the impact of military regimes on social change (i.e., economic growth and social reform) in Third-World countries. The first asserts that military governments are progressive; the second claims that they are conservative or reactionary; while the third states that the impact of military regimes on social change varies by level of development. An analysis of covariance model is specified and used first to reanalyze data previously examined by Nordlinger. The results provide no support for any of the three hypotheses, but limitations of the data prevent this from being a convincing test. The model is therefore tested with a second set of data covering 77 politically independent countries of the Third World for the decade 1960 to 1970. Again, the estimates are inconsistent with all three hypotheses and suggest instead that military regimes have no unique effects on social change, regardless of societal type. The paper concludes that the civilian-military government distinction is of little use in the explanation of social change.

Religion, Politics, and Social Change in the Third World: A Sourcebook

1976 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 168
Author(s):  
Donald Zewe ◽  
Donald E. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Rising mass incomes as a condition of capitalist growth: implications for the world economy

1983 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hartmut Elsenhans
Keyword(s):  
Social Reform ◽  
Third World ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
European Expansion ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Third World

The rise of capitalism in Western Europe was based on rising mass incomes and a political power relationship favorable to the lower classes, which created opportunities for profitable investment. Nowhere in today's underdeveloped world did such conditions exist before the European expansion; nowhere were they created by the mere fact of integration into the capitalist world system. Thus the periphery has been ever more disadvantaged by its connection with the capitalist center. But the center could and can dispense withthe contribution of the periphery and, indeed, on occasion has done so. A planned restructuring of the productive apparatus and social reform in the Third World are both complex and contradictory processes. The working class in the North has to realize its interest in defending the masses of the Third World. It can do so by linking economic concessions in the North-South dialogue (raw material prices or access to markets) to social reform and the creation of a productive apparatus that permits the rise of mass incomes in the Third World.

scholarly journals (Re)thinking Postsocialism: Interview with Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora

2019 ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Lesia Pagulich ◽  
Tatsiana Shchurko
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Third World ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
Colonial Form ◽  
The Third World ◽  
National Economies ◽  
The Impact

Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora: We realized that the socialist legacies of each region connected them, as well as to other global sites. Postcolonial studies offered tools for understanding Soviet imperialism, yet came from regions with very different racialized, gendered, and sexualized dynamics of power that accompanied the European colonial form of economic domination. At the same time, postsocialist studies was actively excavating and engaging the impact of socialism on cultural and political life in Eastern Europe in a way that did not seem to gain traction as a way to understand the socialist commitments of newly independent governments in the third world who were non-aligned but initiated social welfare and redistribution policies to protect newly launched national economies, policies that continue in some places until the present.

scholarly journals GLOBAL GOVERNANCE IN ALL ITS DISCRETE FORMS: THE GAME, FIFA, AND THE THIRD WORLD

1969 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 199-228
Author(s):  
Basil Ugochukwu
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Global Governance ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Organization ◽  
The Third ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Rule Making

This paper uses the governance praxis of the Federation of International Football Associations [FIFA] to illustrate the impact of several intensive, discrete, and rarely-studied global governance actors whose internal processes and procedures mirror the core concerns of Third World Approaches to International Law [TWAIL] scholars regarding the legitimation of a hegemonic category and the marginalization of Third World and subaltern interests. It is argued that FIFA has become an important international organization and global governance actor whose transnational rule-making characteristics should be studied in light of the incipient migration from “international law” to “global governance”.      It will be shown that not only are FIFA’s rules impinging on sovereign imagination but that the tendencies of inequality, unfairness and domination afflicting the practices of traditional or state-centric international organizations are as prevalent in the procedures of such less-studied global governance actors regardless that their rule-making activities exert significant impact on governments, especially those in Africa and other parts of the Third World. More significantly, the essay looks at possible domestic political and socio-legal implications of discrete globalization of the kind exemplified by FIFA on Africa and the Third World and how important it is to integrate this concern into TWAIL scholarship going forward.

Colonial system: balance and prospects after 1945 in the assessments of diplomats of the United States, the USSR and Great Britain

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 181-183
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Alexandrovich Levin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The Impact

The following paper deals with the views of the ambassadors of the USSR, the USA and Great Britain, expressed in telegrams for foreign affairs agencies. Rolling the world to a new global confrontation, the aggressive rhetoric of each participating country, specific actions to build up political and military capabilities required some kind of balanced assessment from experts who were well-versed in the political and social development of states that appeared after the Second World War on different sides of the barricade. In addition, the third world acquired special importance in the new conditions. The disintegration of the colonial system opened great prospects for each of the great powers. Therefore, besides the analyses of prospects and characteristics of relations between the USSR and Western countries, diplomats in their analytical reports affected the prospects for the development of the former colonies, as well as tried to forecast the actions of the probable enemy and the closest allies, comprehended the existing contradictions on this issue and tried to give some assessment, propose solutions to these problems. Considering the influence of the telegrams analyzed in the framework of this study on the formation of the Cold War, conclusions are drawn about the impact of assessments expressed by diplomats on the development of relations with the countries of the third world. The analysis of J. Kennan, N. Novikov and F. Roberts notes shows the difference in the approaches and understanding of each country, both its opponents and its allies, a different view of the process of decolonization and its prospects. The paper is based on the sources on the diplomatic history of the Cold War and on some references on the topic.

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