1 After the Third World? History, destiny and the fate of Third Worldism Mark T Berger 2 Using and abusing the concept of the Third World: geopolitics and the comparative political study of development and underdevelopment Vicky Randall 3 The rise of neo-Third Worldism? The Indonesian trajectory and the consolidation of illiberal democracy Vedi R Hadiz 4 The hares, the hounds and the African National Congress: on joining the Third World in post-apartheid South Africa John S Saul 5 The Second Age of the Third World: from primitive accumulation to global public goods? David Moore 6 Re-crossing a different water: colonialism and Third Worldism in Fiji Devleena Ghosh 7 Spectres of the Third World: global modernity and the end of the three worlds Arif Dirlik 8 Transforming centre–periphery relations: the empire of capital and the making and unmaking of the Third World Fouad Makki 9 From national bourgeoisie to rogues, failures and bullies: the contradictions of 21st century imperialism and the unravelling of the Third World Radhika Desai 10 Reconstituting the Third World? Poverty reduction and territoriality in the global politics of development Heloise Weber 11 Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements Arturo Escobar 12 Third Worldism and the lineages of global fascism: the regrouping of the global South in the neo-liberal era Rajeev Patel and Philip McMichael 13 Globalising the Zapatistas: from Third World solidarity to global solidarity? Thomas Olesen
Biography
Mark T. Berger has been Visiting Professor in the Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School (Monterey, California) since July 2006. He has published over 70 articles in international journals and chapters in edited books. He is the author of The Battle for Asia: From Decolonization to Globalization (2004) and The American Ascendancy and After: Empires, Nation-States and Changing Global Orders (2009: forthcoming). He is also editor of From Nation-Building to State-Building (2007) and co-author of Rethinking the Third World: International Development and World Politics (2009: forthcoming).
