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| Illustrations | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Understanding the "Global South": Poverty, Wealth, and Change | |
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| What Is the Global South? | |
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| Differences among Nations of the Global South | |
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| Common Characteristics of Developing Nations | |
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| What Is Development? | |
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| Using Theory to Explain Processes of Economic and Social Change | |
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| Who Cares about Development Issues? | |
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| What Issues Confront Both South and North at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century? | |
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| How This Book Is Organized | |
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| The Human Dimensions of Being Poor in the Developing World | |
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| Political Change: Traps, Ilusions, and Opportunities | |
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| Exploring North-South Relationships: From the East India Company to East Timor | |
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| Imperialism: The Creation of European Empires | |
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| A History of Colonialism | |
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| Third World Responses: Nationalism and Nationalist Identities | |
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| North-South Politics in the Cold War Era | |
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| The Berlin Wall and New Global Dynamics | |
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| Legacies of Imperialism and Colonialism: An Overview | |
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| Colonial Legacies Haunting the Twenty-First Century: East Timor, Nigeria, and Afghanistan | |
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| Southern Perspectives on North Expansionism | |
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| Summary Observations | |
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| Politics and the State: Concepts, Political Realities, and Challenges | |
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| A Comparative Political Perspective | |
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| Political Realities: The Horn of Africa, Zimbabwe, and India | |
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| The Continuing Challenges | |
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| Conflict, Human Rights, and the Politics of Refugees | |
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| Challenges to Security in the Global South | |
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| Ethnic and Sectarian Struggles, Insurgencies, and Guerrilla Movements | |
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| Balancing Rights: Migrants, Asylum Seekers, Refugees, Receiving Peoples | |
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| Human Rights, Conflict, and Development | |
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| Key Issues for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Economic Relationships, Trends, Crises, and Challenges | |
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| The Shape of the Global Economy | |
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| The Global Economy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century: A Snapshot | |
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| Key Actors in the Global Economy | |
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| Multinationals in North-South Relations | |
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| Trade and the Global South | |
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| The Boom in International Banking, the Debt Crisis, and the Financial Crisis of the 1990s | |
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| Rethinking Global Economic Structures | |
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| Economic Realities and Local Perspectives: Rural Livelihoods, Debt and Drugs, and Globalizing Industries | |
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| Defining the Problem: Stagnant or Worsening Economic Conditions | |
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| Multiple Livelihood Strategies: The Struggles of Small Farming Households in the Global South | |
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| Enmeshed in the Global Politics of Poverty, Debt, and Drugs: Bolivian Peasants | |
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| Southern Perspectives on Globalizing Industries | |
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| Summary: Stretching Our Understanding of Distant Lives and Livelihoods | |
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| Critical Issues: Population Dynamics, Food Security, and Environmental Degradation | |
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| The Dynamics of Population, Development, and Environment | |
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| Who Is Here at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century? | |
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| Tools, Concepts, and Terms for Considering Population and Environment Relationships | |
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| What Links Population, Environment, and Development? | |
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| The Central Place of Women's Empowerment, Education, and Health in the Population/Environment Discussions | |
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| Three Policy Concerns for the Global South in the New Century | |
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| Concluding Observations: Poverty, Environment, and Population | |
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| Food Security, Rural Change, and Global Politics | |
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| The World's Changing Food Systems | |
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| Constraints on Food Production | |
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| Women and Food Security: Views from the South | |
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| Critical Issues in Achieving Food Security in the Global South | |
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| Concluding Observations: Toward Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security | |
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| Designing Our Future: Local Action and Global Change | |
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| New Voices and New Agendas | |
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| The World We Are Creating | |
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| New Voices: Grassroots Movements for Global Change, South and North | |
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| Key Voices from the South | |
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| New Agendas | |
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| Emerging Choices and Challenges for the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Notes | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Author | |