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The Struggle for the Third World
Soviet Debates and American Options
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2010
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In the last quarter century the Soviet Union and the United States have repeatedly come into conflict in various parts of the third world. During this period the most backward third world countries have sometimes proved susceptible to radical revolution, but the countries well on the way to industrialization have moved away from left-wing economic and political policies. In the longer perspective the West has been winning the struggle for the third world. The changes in those countries have been the subject of intense published debate in the Soviet Uniondebate on Marxist concepts of the stages of history, on theories of economic development and revolutionary strategy, and on foreign policy. Jerry F. Hough explores the breakup of the orthodox Stalinist position on these issues and the evolution of free-swinging discussion about them. He suggests that, paradoxically, many of the old Stalinist ideas retain their strongest hold in the United States, which has not fully recognized its victory in the third world and the importance of the West's great economic power. The United States too often assumes that radical regimes will inevitably follow the Soviet path of development and that the nature of a regime determines the nature of its foreign policy. Because of these misperceptions, Hough argues the United States misses many opportunities in the third world. It emphasizes military power, even to the extent of undermining its crucial economic power, and it fails to offer the face-saving gestures that would permit Soviet retreats. Hough presents a prescription for an American policy better suited to the new realities in the third world and to the changing Soviet attitude toward them.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3745-2
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-1998-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
293
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1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 12
The Rules of the Game No access
The Forms of the Debates No access
Deciphering the Debates No access
Conclusion No access
The Stalinist Orthodoxy No access
The Reemergence of the Asiatic Mode of Production No access
Rethinking the Five Stages of History No access
The Multistnictural Society No access
The Impact of Tradition and Culture No access
The Concept of Stage of History No access
The Persistence of Orthodoxy No access
The Need for Western Investment No access
Dependency, Level of Development, and the Uniformity of the Third World No access
An Internationalization of the World Economy? No access
Economic Growth vs. Social Justice No access
The Varga Controversy No access
The Breakup of the Old Rigidities No access
Toward a More Complex View of the State No access
Four Images of the State in the Third World No access
The National Liberation Movement and Communist Revolutionary Strategy No access
The Many Roads to Socialism and the National Bourgeoisie No access
The Noncapitalist Path of Development and Socialist Orientation No access
The Vanguard Party No access
The Special Case of Latin America No access
The Role of Communist Parties and Revolutionary Strategy No access
The Traditional View of International Relations No access
The Post-Stalin Thaw No access
Khrushchev vs. Malenkov No access
The Primacy of Economics or Politics? No access
Military Force in International Relations No access
International Relations: Conflict or Cooperation? No access
The Breakup of the Old Orthodoxies No access
Dependence and Independence No access
The Probabilities and Correlates of Independence No access
