"Proposes an analytical foundation for national security that challenges long-held assumptions or outdated suppositions about foreign affairs. Presents case studies of American foreign policy toward developing countries, efforts at state building, and nations growing in importance. Concludes...

Since its establishment in 1949, the People's Republic of China (PRC) has viewed itself as an underdeveloped country-economically backward, physically weak, and vulnerable to exploitation by more powerful states. Even as the PRC has grown stronger economically and militarily, especially since...

"As Malaysia's economy grows and flourishes, strong new links are being forged with other developing countries in the region and beyond. This book examines these new links. It argues that as many countries with which Malaysia has new links are Indian Ocean countries, many of them Muslim...

Machine generated contents note: Introduction * PART I: A CONTEMPORARY HISTORY * Origins of the South * The Rise of the 'New South' * Globalization and the South * PART II: STATES AND REGIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OF THE SOUTH * Pivotal states of the South * Regionalism and the South * PART III:...