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The term Third World arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.
17 sty 2023 · ABSTRACT. In 1952, French demographer Alfred Sauvy coined the term ‘Third World’, a neologism that expanded globally and became a key category of post-war thought. After the term's decline in the 1980s, decolonial studies and the new Cold War historiography revisited it, using it to ‘provincialize’ Cold War history.
Third World is a term historically used to describe countries that were not aligned with either the capitalist NATO bloc (First World) or the socialist Eastern Bloc (Second World) during the Cold War, often characterized by lower economic development and higher poverty rates.
1 cze 2014 · The Cold War in the Third World is a welcome collection of essays exploring the complex interconnections between what Robert J. McMahon calls the “two distinct, if overlapping and intertwined, historical phenomena [which defined the second half of the twentieth century]: the Cold War and the emergence of the Third World” (p. 1).
26 mar 2013 · Emerging in the context of the Cold War, the concept of the Third World was employed to various ends: namely as a means to control that which was known as the Third World, but also as a mobilising myth for the successful completion of decolonisation and for the establishment of a counter hegemonic alliance.
4 kwi 2023 · For most people, the ‘Third World’ suggests a group of struggling, undeveloped societies, a term abandoned because it sounds awfully patronising. Cold War historians know it was used to describe that third camp of states that identified neither with the capitalist camp nor with the communist camp.
5 dni temu · Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. It was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. The term was first used by writer George Orwell.
