In theory, use of the term (ie, third world) should have ceased more than twenty years ago, in November 1989, after the fall of the Berlin Wall marked the end of the “Second World”, that of “actually existing socialism.”
Ø Without a
Why the
1. There are at least two reasons why the term “
Ø The expression captured well the condition of the post-colonial world in Africa, Asia and
Ø Those conditions could not be understood by using the ideological straitjacket imposed by the ideological divisions between East and West.
Ø Much was happening in the South, as the colonial empires crumbled, and the Castros, Nehrus, Nkruhmas and Nyereres disposed of the debris left behind and embarked on the arduous task of nation-building.
Ø Infect, what was happening there was giving new meaning to old movements like nationalism, populism and socialism.
2. The second reason is that no alternative term captured with the same precision and élan the true condition of the young nations.
Ø Other technocrats from the IFIs gave us, seriatim, a variety of terms —underdeveloped, developing, lower-income — each more anodyne than the other.
Ø Their blandness (i.e. of terms) seemed to relegate the post-colonial nations to a mere footnote to the real History (with a capital H), being written in the
3. The term “South” was perhaps the one that came closest to substitute “Third World.”, but perhaps because of its rather neutral, mere geographical connotation, never took on the way it should have.
Ø As The Economist never ceased to point out, it had also the problem of leaving out, at least nominally, such heavyweights as
4. That is why the term “Global South” took centre stage, and is in many ways the expression of choice these days, with its conceptual rather than strictly geographic umbrella. Its undisputed capital is
Ø That said, the term “Global South” doesn't do justice to the enormous changes that have taken place in the global political economy over the past two decades.
1. As the recent meeting of the BRICs group in Brasilia and the upcoming one of the G-20 in Toronto next June illustrate, it's a whole new world out there.
Understanding New South, a new dynamics of 21st century
Consider following developments …
1. The rise of
Ø This has radically altered the terms of reference in which nation states operate.
2. In the sixties and seventies, the new nations in Asia, Africa and the Caribbean, and to some extent the older ones in Latin America (seen by some as the “middle class of nations,” though never really fitting that somewhat pretentious category), were economically weak, highly dependent on trade and investment links with the North and resentful about the legacy of colonialism.
Ø Believing there was strength in numbers, they gathered in a vast array of entities, led by the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), the Group of 77 at the United Nations, and UNCTAD, also at the U.N.
Ø Speaking from weakness, they still banged on the table and engaged in the “diplomacy of the cahier des doleances, with proposals like that of the New International Economic Order (NIEO), demanding massive transfers of resources from North to South.
Ø Though they sometimes found sympathetic ears up North (during the early years of Carter administration in the
3. Over the past twenty years, and particularly over the past ten, this has changed. It is now a whole new ball game.
Ø With the rise of
Ø It expects a greater voice at the IFIs, and a place at the high table of global economic governance. It wants access to Northern markets, and is able to hold out in terms of access to its own, if its demands are not met.
1. (Example)In many ways, the lopsided relationship between China and the U.S., in which the latter, which has turned into the world's largest debtor nation, has become largely beholden to the former, the world's largest holder of U.S. Treasury bills, is emblematic of this cataclysmic change between North and South.
4. But there is more. The visit of
Ø Southern countries are no longer beholden to trade and investment ties with the North. They can also do that among themselves.
Ø Growth rates in many Asian countries triple those of western nations, while their debt-to-GDP ratios are one fifth of those of G-8 members.
Ø Latin America emerged largely unscathed from the Great Recession of 2008-2009, one largely triggered by Wall Street, and whose most devastating repercussions were to be felt in Central and
CONCLUSIONS
1. There is, in other words, a New South that has emerged in this new century. It is already redrawing the boundaries and the patterns of behaviour of the current international system
2. That’s how internal dynamics and vision of new entities like BRICs, IBSA and BRICSAM should be understood.
Where does
As a superpower
This is to be the somewhat unwarranted claims of some sectors of Indian public opinion
Reasons
1. There are lots of disparities, conflicts, tensions within Indian society, institutional breakdowns to address before we start claiming the world prematurely.
2. Both
3. There is only one superpower around right now (the
Ø It still produces between a fifth and one fourth of the world's product
Ø And is unlikely to be threatened in its pre-eminence by any other single power for at least a few decades.
1. What
2. That is because of its high growth and savings rates, huge hard currency reserves, and its dynamic high-tech industry and IT-service sector (“Indovation,” as the FT has dubbed it)
Ø It also joining hand with other such powers from the New South — the BRICSAMs of this world — to rewrite the rules on how the world is run.
Ø This does not make it into a superpower, but it can make for a fairer and less skewed world order.
3. This is what the
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