Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index.
Introduction -- A world of poverty -- Five lives -- The third world -- The extent of world poverty -- The successes -- Different areas of the third world diverge -- The betrayal of responsibility -- Explanations of underdevelopment -- Modernization theory -- Dependency theory -- Marxism -- Limitations of these approaches -- Why does poverty persist? -- Assessment -- The theories as worldviews -- Imperialism -- The creation of the European empires -- The causes of Imperialism -- The culture of Imperialism -- The foundations of the third world poverty --
The population explosion -- The legacy of Imperialism -- Nationalism and independence -- The origins of third world Nationalism -- The Indian subcontinent -- China -- Vietnam -- Algeria -- Muslim and Jewish Nationalism and the dilemma of the Middle East -- Sub-Saharan Africa -- Latin America -- The Nationalist identity -- The legacy of Nationalism, -- Economic development -- What is economic development? -- Population control -- False paths to economic development -- Development in the 1980s: waylaid by the debt crisis -- The 1990s: rediscovering the market and exports --
Foreign policy -- The end of the Cold War -- Foreign policy during the Cold War: globalism -- The decline in U.S. hegemony -- The illusion of the North-South dialogue -- Options in the post-Cold War world -- Military spending and policy -- Human rights policy -- Foreign economic policy -- Can the rich cooperate with the poor? -- Into the future -- Development in a world of limits -- A hope for partnership