Narratives of emergence: Rising powers and the end of the Third World?

Andrew Hurrell ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2013, vol. 33, issue 2, 203-221

Abstract: This article examines recent arguments from development economists, from historians and from international relations specialists that do challenge the continued relevance of the idea of the Third World. It then examines five reasons why these arguments are wrong. We can indeed understand much about emerging powers in terms of how they are seeking to navigate and best position themselves within an existing state-centric, liberal and capitalist order whilst accepting many of the underlying assumptions and values of that order. But the nature of that navigation has been shaped by their historical trajectory and by the developmental, societal and geopolitical context of their emergence. JEL classification: F02.

Keywords: BRICs; Global South; Third World; Emerging Powers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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