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- Title
Whatever Happened to the Non-Aligned Movement?
- Authors
Evans, Martin
- Abstract
THE TERM 'THIRD WORLD' WAS COINED in August 1952 by the French demographer Alfred Sauvy in the left-wing magazine L'Observateur. With the Chinese Revolution just three years old and conflict raging in Korea, political thinking was dominated by the Cold War, in which the two ideologically opposed alliances, led by the United States and the Soviet Union, seemed to be leading the world towards an all-out war between capitalism and communism. Yet, Sauvy argued, such a perspective ignored the real revolution in international relations: the arrival of the countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America on the world stage. Drawing an explicit comparison with the role of the Third Estate during the French Revolution, Sauvy wanted to convey the colossal transformation represented by decolonization. As in 1789, Sauvy warned, 'this third world, ignored, exploited, scorned, wishes to stand up for itself'.
- Subjects
ALGERIA; NONALIGNMENT; INTERNATIONAL relations; BOUMEDIENE, Houari; CASTRO, Fidel, 1926-2016; DEVELOPING countries
- Publication
History Today, 2007, Vol 57, Issue 12, p49
- ISSN
0018-2753
- Publication type
Article