THE NON-ALIGNED MOVEMENT AND THE UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT OF THE THIRD WORLD

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2024-8

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ÖZENİŞ, Çağdaş

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This thesis aims to examine the uneven and combined development of the Third World phenomenon and its relationship with 'nonalignment‘, both as a movement and as a foreign policy stance. The validity of non-alignment, and the concept of Third World that arose from it, become highly contested following the end of the Cold War. Yet, just like any other "end of" debates that took place in the early 1990s, the academic discussions regarding the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Third World remained one-sided, in which correlation was often conflated with causation, as the declining relevance of these movements were solely attributed to the dissolution of the socialist block, while their historical significance got gradually undermined for the sake of rendering them obsolete. What appeared particularly problematic in this regard, is the theoretical gap between geopolitics and development within the analytical frameworks through which NAM and Third World have historically been approached within these discussions. This thesis argues that this gap can be bridged by using the theory of uneven and combined development, and only then can the historical significance and contemporary relevance of non-alignment be re-examined for the countries that now constitute the so-called 'Global South'.

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Non-Aligned Movement, Uneven and Combined Development, Third World, Development, Geopolitics

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/110501

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis