Canada and the Third World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Canada and the Third World write by Karen Dubinsky. This book was released on 2016-03-31. Canada and the Third World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though they are aware of the Third World in relation to their daily lives, most Canadians know little about the historical foundations and complex nature of their country's entanglements with non-Western societies. Canada and the Third World provides a long overdue introduction to Canada's historical relationship with the Third World. The book critically explores this relationship by asking four central questions: how can we understand the historical roots of Canada's relations with the Third World? How have Canadians, individuals and institutions alike, practiced and imagined development? How can we integrate Canada into global histories of empire, decolonization, and development? And how should we understand the relationship between issues such as poverty, racism, gender equality, and community development in the First and Third World alike?
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen write by Arianna Huffington. This book was released on 2011-04-07. Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Ordinary Citizen available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Features updated material and a special foreword from Arianna for the UK audience It’s not an exaggeration to say that the hard-working, average citizen on an average income is an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become outdated. The USA is in danger of becoming a Third World nation.
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion
Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion write by Péter Tamás Bauer. This book was released on 1981. Equality, the Third World, and Economic Delusion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even in impoverished countries lacking material and human resources, P. T. Bauer argues, economic growth is possible under the right conditions. These include a certain amount of thrift and enterprise among the people, social mores and traditions which sustain them, and a firm but limited government which permits market forces to work. Challenging many views about development that are widely held, Bauer takes on squarely the notion that egalitarianism is an appropriate goal. He goes on to argue that the population explosion of less-developed countries has on the whole been a voluntary phenomenon and that each new generation has lived better than its forebears. He also critically examines the notion that the policies and practices of Western nations have been responsible for third world poverty. In a major chapter, he reviews the rationalizations for foreign aid and finds them weak; while in another he shows that powerful political clienteles have developed in the Western nations supporting the foreign aid process and probably benefiting more from it than the alleged recipients. Another chapter explores the link between the issue of Special Drawing Rights by the International Monetary Fund on the one hand and the aid process on the other. Throughout the book, Bauer carefully examines the evidence and the light it throws on the propositions of development. Although the results of his analysis contradict the conventional wisdom of development economics, anyone who is seriously concerned with the subject must take them into account.
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader
Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader write by Benjamin R. Young. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Guns, Guerillas, and the Great Leader available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Far from always having been an isolated nation and a pariah state in the international community, North Korea exercised significant influence among Third World nations during the Cold War era. With one foot in the socialist Second World and the other in the anticolonial Third World, North Korea occupied a unique position as both a postcolonial nation and a Soviet client state, and sent advisors to assist African liberation movements, trained anti-imperialist guerilla fighters, and completed building projects in developing countries. State-run media coverage of events in the Third World shaped the worldview of many North Koreans and helped them imagine a unified anti-imperialist front that stretched from the boulevards of Pyongyang to the streets of the Gaza Strip and the beaches of Cuba. This book tells the story of North Korea's transformation in the Third World from model developmental state to reckless terrorist nation, and how Pyongyang's actions, both in the Third World and on the Korean peninsula, ultimately backfired against the Kim family regime's foreign policy goals. Based on multinational and multi-archival research, this book examines the intersection of North Korea's domestic and foreign policies and the ways in which North Korea's developmental model appealed to the decolonizing world.
While Canada Slept
While Canada Slept - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook While Canada Slept write by Andrew Cohen. This book was released on 2011-02-04. While Canada Slept available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For how much longer can Canada expect to get a free ride? With 9/11 and the international “war on terrorism,” the time has come to ask some hard questions. Should we continue to starve our military, reduce our humanitarian assistance, dilute our diplomacy, and absent ourselves from global intelligence-gathering? Can we expect to sit at the global table by virtue of our economic power without pursuing a foreign policy worthy of our history, geography, and diversity? Canada has been getting by on the cheap, writes Andrew Cohen in this timely, forceful, and insightful new book. Our reluctance to pay our own way has had a cost: it has eroded the pillars of our international stature. We are still trading on the reputation this country built two generations ago, but it is a reputation we no longer deserve. We claim to be engaged abroad, but for too long we have been a freeloader, trying to do the same for less, practising pinch-penny diplomacy and foreign policy on the cheap. Our capacity in these key areas has become glaringly inadequate, and now that weakness is compromising our ability to honour our traditional commitments overseas. The time is ripe for a thorough re-examination of our foreign policy, to affirm our values, to win the respect of our allies, to carry our weight.
