POLITICAL SYSTEMS & POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THIRD

POLITICAL SYSTEMS & POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS IN THE THIRD WORLD IN THE XX-XXI CENTURIES Dr. Pritam Singh Oxford Brookes University Oxford U.K.

THREE PERIODS Colonial Post colonial Neo-liberal

Key concepts Third World Systems Democratic/Bourgeois democratic Authoritarian Socialist Movements Democratic/constitutional Extra-constitutional (peaceful and armed/militant) Reformist Revolutionary

First period System: Colonial Movements: Nationalist Socialist Reformist Revolutionary Peaceful/Terrorist

Second period System: Decolonisation Movements: Third World solidarity Non-alignment and cold war Peasant movements (land reforms) China (Maoism/Peasant as a revolutionary class) Peace movement (anti-nuclear war, links with Western movements) Women’s movement

Third period Collapse of Stalinist regimes Francis Fukuyama’s thesis of ‘The end of history’ (market and liberal democracy) global economic crisis since 2007/08 Movements: Anti-capitalism/anti-globalisation Islamic movements NGOs (Human Rights, environmental movements, other egalitarian movements) Secessionist/nationalist movements