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| List of tables, figures and maps | |
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| List of plates | |
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| List of abbreviations | |
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| Preface to the third edition | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| The developing world | |
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| Third World or developing world? | |
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| What is development? | |
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| Which are the developing countries? | |
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| First World and Third World | |
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| South v North | |
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| Survival of the term Third World | |
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| Colonisation and post-colonial society | |
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| Independence and the legacy of war and militarism | |
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| Gender and the roles of women and men | |
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| Women and development | |
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| Research in the developing world | |
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| Social and other indicators | |
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| China: the dragon awakes? | |
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| Competing ideologies and interpretations of development | |
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| Strategies of industrialisation | |
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| A right to development? | |
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| Development in the free market | |
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| Transnational corporations | |
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| Globalisation: what is it and what effect does it have? | |
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| Neo-liberalism | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| The infrastructure of the developing world | |
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| Physical location | |
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| Main geographical features | |
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| The Asian tsunami of 2004 | |
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| Relief and drainage | |
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| Boundaries and territorial disputes | |
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| Refugees: the case of East Timor (Timor Leste) | |
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| Terrorism | |
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| Agricultural activity | |
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| Mining | |
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| Human settlement | |
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| Refugees: the case of Rwanda | |
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| Land reform | |
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| Urbanisation | |
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| Migrants | |
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| Communications | |
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| Small island developing states | |
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| The balance sheet: assets and problems | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| The crisis of the developing world | |
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| Poverty and basic needs | |
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| Water | |
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| Food | |
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| Sanitation and health | |
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| Infant mortality and life expectancy | |
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| Medical services | |
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| Malaria | |
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| HIV/AIDS | |
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| Housing | |
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| Case study 3.3 Bird flu | |
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| Education | |
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| Population growth | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| Social and economic contexts | |
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| The economic context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| How is economic policy made? | |
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| Africa: globalisation and marginalisation | |
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| Case study 4.1 Ghana | |
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| Cash crops | |
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| Latin America: the persistence of debt | |
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| The debt boomerang | |
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| The 'war on drugs' | |
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| Policy choices for indebted countries | |
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| The crisis of 1997 | |
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| Asia: the newly industrialising countries | |
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| The rise of the NICs | |
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| The fear of insecurity: the South-east Asia crisis and after | |
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| Globalisation | |
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| Transnational links | |
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| Business and politics: taxation, tariffs and privatisation | |
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| Bretton Woods | |
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| The International Monetary Fund | |
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| The World Bank | |
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| The GATT and WTO | |
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| Bananas | |
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| Regional economic groupings | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| The social context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Gender and society | |
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| Women and work | |
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| Women and children | |
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| Women and political power | |
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| Women and the orthodoxy of development | |
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| Impact of development on other disadvantaged groups | |
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| Ethnic cleavages | |
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| Class and state | |
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| The family | |
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| Indigenous peoples | |
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| Social factors favouring development | |
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| Maintaining social provision in an evolving society | |
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| Religion, politics and society | |
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| The clash of cultures | |
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| The concept of modernity: competing cultures | |
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| The global network | |
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| Impact of transnational media | |
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| 'McWorld?' | |
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| Opinion formers | |
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| News management and international perception of the developing world | |
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| High culture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| The international context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Two hours that shook the world | |
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| George Bush and the aftermath of '9/11' | |
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| War in Iraq | |
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| The post-war situation | |
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| Terror and the developing world | |
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| The breakdown of the state | |
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| Intervention | |
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| Non-alignment | |
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| Developing world conflicts | |
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| Weapons of mass destruction in the developing world | |
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| The role of the United Nations | |
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| Regional alignments | |
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| The first Bush Administration and Panama | |
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| The rise of 'humanitarian intervention' | |
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| The Gulf War 1991 | |
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| Rwanda | |
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| International peacemaking/peacekeeping | |
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| The international politics of oil | |
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| The oil majors as actors in South-North relations | |
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| Libya and the North | |
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| Oil in South-North relations today | |
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| The international politics of water | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| Politics of the developing world | |
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| State-building | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who makes the law? | |
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| The problem of the weak state | |
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| Constitutional government | |
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| Parliamentary systems | |
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| Presidential systems | |
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| Interest groups | |
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| Political parties and elections | |
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| Organisation of political parties | |
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| Rise and fall of the 'one-party state' | |
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| Populism and democracy | |
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| Causes of insurgency | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Religion and ethnicity | |
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| Case study 7.1 Sri Lanka | |
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| Personalism | |
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| Corruption | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key Terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| Dictatorship and democratisation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Authoritarianism | |
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| Coercive structures | |
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| Military intervention | |
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| Structure and roles of armed forces | |
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| Military developmentalism | |
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| Case study 8.1 Democratisation in Argentina | |
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| Arms procurement | |
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| Regional powers | |
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| Requirements for liberal democracy | |
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| Democratisation in the developing world | |
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| Empowerment and the growth of civil society | |
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| Democracy and development | |
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| Democracy promotion | |
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| Democratisation in Ghana | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| Policy issues | |
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| Policy issues | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Aid | |
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| Trade | |
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| South-South trade | |
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| Tourism | |
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| Goa | |
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| Belize | |
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| Costa Rica | |
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| The Caribbean Islands | |
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| Kenya | |
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| The Gambia | |
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| Southern Africa | |
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| Environment | |
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| Key terms | |
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| Questions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Modernisation in Asia | |
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| The radicalisation of the Middle East | |
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| The decline of Africa | |
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| The de-industrialisation of Europe | |
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| The future of the poorest countries | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |