Here is the synopsis of our sample research paper on Concepts of Development and Underdevelopment Explained. Have the paper e-mailed to you 24/7/365.
Essay / Research Paper Abstract
This 11 page paper looks at the developing world . The ideas are discussed in depth inclusive of the importance of NICs. The paradigm of first to fourth worlds are explored and both sides of the issue are clearly explained. Bibliography lists 15 sources.
Page Count:
11 pages (~225 words per page)
File: RT13_SA351blc.rtf
Buy This Term Paper »
Unformatted sample text from the term paper:
great deal of attention and are trading partners to third world nations. With the disintegration of the U.S.S.R. the second world or the communist bloc barely exists and today there
is an emergence of the first and third worlds exclusively. Third world nations are thought to be ones in transition or in a stage of development. There may also be
construed a paradigm where there is a first world and a third world perhaps, or a developed world and a developing world, or perhaps one can say that there are
developed countries and underdeveloped ones, but the best way to comprehend this concept is to understand how nations were categorized historically. Going back to the time period, the obvious order
was that the United States and the U.S.S.R. were the two most significant world powers. However, in reflecting on the intricacies of the world order at the time, things were
not quite that simple. During the 1950s, there were two geopolitical blocs in the world which were the NATO alliance of liberal democracies, or the First World, and the
Soviet bloc of state socialist nations or the Second World (McLeish, 1993). Along with the first and second worlds, there were emerging nation states and they were interested in separating
themselves from their colonial powers (1995). At first, the concept of the third world was to define countries which were not part of either bloc, where the superpowers reigned (1995).
Incidentally, French sociologist Alfred Sauvey has been credited with creating the terminology (Safire, 1993). But what emerged was an active, non-alligned movement intended to promote this new sector of nations,
or the third world (McLeish, 1995). Yet, members who were interested in promoting third world causes were actually often members of the other blocs (1995). Aside from those facts, another
...