The Third World in Global Perpsective: A Journey From Hope to Despair (COMING SOON)

analysis and profound erudition focusing on the economic, political, social, and cultural factors that have placed the Third World countries in their current global position at the bottom rung of the world s economic order. The book begins by redefining the Third World in light of the post-Cold War geopolitical global repositioning. The chapters incorporate the Second World into the rank of the Third World by splitting those from among them that had liberated themselves from Soviet domination, the former members of the Warsaw Pact, and those that used to be at the periphery of the Soviet orbit known as Asian Soviet Republics. While the former members of the Warsaw Pact are mainly within Europe proper, the Asian Soviet Republics occupy Central Asia. The latter were disdained, but tolerated, by the Soviet system. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, the Central Asia countries have fallen victims of home grown tyrants who ape Stalin and his cruel methods of rule. In that they were