 | Maldevelopment - Anatomy of a Global Failure (UNU, 1990, 246 pages) |
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|  | Introduction: why a political analysis? |
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| | Notes |
| | 1. Africa's economic backwardness |
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| | Sources and methods for the analysis |
| | South of the Sahara |
| | The origins of Africa's agricultural failure |
| | Analysing the exploitation of peasants |
| | North Africa and the Arab world: from statism to comprador capitalism |
| | False analyses, false solutions |
| | Conceptions of Africa's agricultural development: a critique |
| | Industrialization and the agricultural revolution |
| | Notes |
| | 2. The decade of drift: 1975-1985 |
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| | The excitement of the Bandung plan (1955-73)2 |
| | The battle for a new international economic order (NIEO): 1974-1980 |
| | Structural costs; the stakes; the struggle for the NIEO |
| | Africa: from the Lagos plan (1980) to the world bank plan and the United Nations Conference (1986) |
| | Debt and the threat of a financial crash |
| | The efforts of radical African nationalism: adjustment or delinking?6 |
| | Notes |
| | 3. The crisis of state |
| | (introductory text...) |
| | Nation-state and the ideology of nation in crisis' |
| | Ethnicity: myth and reality |
| | The cultural dimension of development in Africa and the third world |
| | The cultural dimension: the example of the crisis in the arab world today - the end of the Nahda?7 |
| | New forms of the social movement |
| | Notes |
| | 4. complexities of international relations: Africa's vulnerability and external intervention |
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| | African economies' vulnerability vis-à-vis the challenge of capitalism's new worldwide expansion |
| | Some specific aspects of Africa's economic integration in the world system, ACP-EEC association and Euro-American mercantile conflict1 |
| | Special links with France: the Franc zone2 |
| | Evolution in Euro-Arab relations: interwoven economics and politics |
| | Conflict and national and regional security in Africa |
| | The Middle East conflict in a world perspective |
| | Africa and the Arab world in the world system |
| | Notes |
| | 5. Alternative development for Africa and the third world |
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| | Inequality in income distribution the centre and periphery1 |
| | The alternative: popular national development, social and political democracy, delinking3 |
| | Obstacles to popular national, autocentric and delinked development |
| | Notes |
| | 6. Political and social conditions for alternative development in the third world |
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| | Impossibility of the bourgeois national state in the peripheries of the world system1 |
| | Inequality in the worldwide expansion of capitalism; the state's central role |
| | The worldwide spread of value3 |
| | A return to the third world?4 |
| | The consequences of unequal development |
| | The issue of democracy |
| | The historical subject of the popular national option; the role of the intelligentsia |
| | Notes |
| | 7. Inter-African and south-south co-operation |
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| | Pan-Africanism in the light of the colonial inheritance1 |
| | The problematic of the Arab nation2 |
| | Afro-arab co-operation3 |
| | Prospects for south-south co-operation4 |
| | Notes |
| | 8. A polycentric world favourable to development: a possibility? |
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| | The scope and stakes of the global crisis |
| | Conservative forces' offensive |
| | The difficulties of forecasting |
| | The real options for the peoples of the West |
| | Options for socialist societies and east-west relations |
| | The genuine long-term option, transnationalization or a polycentric world and broad autocentric regions |
| | Conclusion: a crisis of transnationalization, ideology and development theory |
| | Notes |
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