United States-Third World Relations in the New World Order

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Nova Publishers, 1996 - Broj stranica: 438
This book explores the primary issues and organising principles that define the United States-Third World relations in the New World Order. This book consists of six sections. The first section includes three essays on the political economy of the United States-Third World relations and American political, economic, and military involvement in the developing countries. In section two, there are two chapters that address the political and cultural challenges facing the United States-Latin American relations in the post-Cold War era, followed by a regional and a country study. Section three devoted to the United States-Asia relations in the New World Order consists of two general essays and three case studies. In section four, we find a chapter that will focus on the relationship between the United States and the Middle East, an essay on economic development, and two case studies. Section five consists of one general essay on the economic decline of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa in the post-Cold War era followed by a case study of structural adjustments in an African country. The final section of the book is comprised of four chapters on the political economy of development in the New World Order.
 

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A Policemans Lot is Not Always a Happy One
7
United States and Middle East PostWorld War II Relations
21
The American Doctrine of Low Intensity Conflict in the New World Order
47
New Challenges for United States Foreign Policy
63
Cultural Barriers to Effective Trade Between the United States and Latin America
85
Relations Among Neighboring Nations in South America
99
PostDevaluation Mexico and the New World Order
121
United StatesEast Asian Trade in the New World Order
147
United States Middle East Policy in the Aftermath of the Cold War and the Persian Gulf War
247
A Comparative Empirical Analysis
263
The Peace Process and the Palestinian Refugees
277
A Retrospective Comparative Analysis
295
PoliticoEconomic Decline in SubSaharan Africa
311
The Case of Côte dIvoire
331
The Economics of Political Change
345
Factors Affecting the Development of Fossil Energy Resources of Developing Countries
359

United StatesASEAN Economic Relations
167
Singapore Style
189
The Political Economy of Normalization
205
Restructuring of Indian Foreign Policy
229
The Case of Eight Asian Countries
389
The Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks
409
Index
429
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