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- Title
Die „Dritte Welt” als Theorieeffekt.
- Authors
Speich Chassé, Daniel
- Abstract
The notion of a "third world" rose to prominence in international political discourse around 1960 and vanished around 1990. It designated a group of countries aligned with neither of the two other worlds. I argue in this article that the term needs to be situated in a larger history of the perception of global difference at least as old as the Enlightenment. The peculiar career of the concept of the "third world" is connected both to changes in the order of knowledge and, more specifically, to the history of economic thought, of which it is an effect. The paper thus focuses on the emergence of the term around 1960 and investigates the irrelevance of economics in late colonialism as opposed to the prominence of economic experts in the post-1945 world order.
- Subjects
DEVELOPING countries; INTERNATIONAL relations; ENLIGHTENMENT; ECONOMIC history; IMPERIALISM; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Geschichte und Gesellschaft, 2015, Vol 41, Issue 4, p580
- ISSN
0340-613X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.13109/gege.2015.41.4.580