Table of Contents

Part I: Imperialism and Intervention 1. Introduction Section I: Decolonisation 2. Introduction 3. Anticolonial Nationalism and Western Response 4. Decolonisation Section II: The Cold War and Imperialism 5. Introduction 6. The Cold War and the Korean War 7. Did Anyone Start the Cold War? Section III: Counterrevolution and Revolt in the Third World 8. Introduction 9. Patterns of Intervention 10. Counterinsurgency in the Third World: Theory and Practice Part IV: Intervention and the Economic Imperatives of Capitalism 11. Introduction 12. Scarce Resources: The Dynamic of American Imperialism 13. Foreign Expansion as an ‘Institutional Necessity’ for Corporate Capitalism 14. Does the U.S. Require Imperialism? Part II: Imperialism and Development 15. Introduction Section V: Inside the Third World 16. Introduction 17. Social Perspectives 18. The Causes of Poverty: A Classification 19. The Rational Choice Section VI: Third World Poverty and the West 20. Introduction 21. The Radical Theory of Development 22. Radical Theories of Development: An Assessment 23. Outwitting the ‘Developed Countries’ Section VII: The World Population/Food Crisis 24. Introduction 25. How Poverty Breeds Overpopulation 26. The Reproduction Function 27. Era of Agricultural Scarcity Looms 28. Patriarchy is Alive and Well Section VIII: China’s Developmental Approach 29. Introduction 30. The Chinese Approach to Development 31. China’s Relevance for Third World Development

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Andrew Mack, David Plant, Ursula Doyle