Nations and Nationalism in Developing Countries
Many new nations in the global south struggled to find national unity following independence because of ethnic and religious divisions within their national borders.
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colonialism
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How does Colonialism Shape the World We Live In? (1/5)
This 2019 Live Stream from Al Jazeera is a good resource for students studying the Global Development option in A-level
Countries, Global Development, Pot Luck
Explaining South Korea’s Development #1
Korea was a Japanese Colony from 1910 to 1945, providing food and fuel for the ‘motherland’. Following the fall of
Global Development, Theories of development
Dependency Theory – Revision Notes
Dependency Theory claims that Colonialism had a negative impact on the satellite territories in Africa, Asia and Latin America; that neocolonialism keeps
Book summaries, Countries, Global Development, Theories of development, USA
Forging the American Empire
Is it possible to perceive the making of modern America as a sort of colonial project? One in which the
Book summaries
The End of Development?
A summary of The End of Development: A Global History of Poverty and Prosperity, by Andrew Brooks (2017) This blog
Global Development, Theories of development
The End of Poverty? A Documentary taking a ‘Dependency Theory’ View of Underdevelopment and Development
This 2008 Documentary seeks to answer the question of why there is still so much poverty in the world when
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A Very Brief History of the Democratic Republic of Congo
This year I’m using the DRC as a major case study in underdevelopment (it is last on the UN’s HDI
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Dependency Theory
Dependency Theorists argue that rich countries accumulated their wealth through exploiting poorer countries. Initially this was through colonialism and slavery, later on through neo-colonialism. To develop, poorer countries need to break free from these exploitative relations.