Third-Worldism is a political concept and
ideology that emerged in the late 1940s or
early 1950s during the Cold War and tried
to generate unity among the nations that did
not want to take sides between the United
States and the Soviet Union.
The concept is closely related but not identical
to the political theory of Maoism-Third Worldism.
The political thinkers and leaders of Third-Worldism
argued that the North-South divisions and
conflicts were of primary political importance
compared to the East-West opposition of the
Cold War period.
In the Three-World Model, the countries of
the First World were the ones allied to the
United States.
These nations had, and still have, less political
risk, better functioning democracy and economic
stability, as well as higher standard of living.
The Second World designation referred to the
former industrial socialist states under the
influence of the Soviet Union.
The Third World hence defined countries that
remained non-aligned with either NATO, or
the Communist Bloc.
The Third World was normally seen to include
many countries with colonial pasts in Africa,
Latin America, Oceania and Asia.
It was also sometimes taken as synonymous
with countries in the Non-Aligned Movement,
connected to the world economic division as
"periphery" countries in the world system
that is dominated by the "core" countries.Third-Worldism
was connected to new political movements following
the Decolonization and new forms of regionalism
that emerged in the erstwhile colonies of
Asia, Africa, and the Middle-East, as well
as in the older nation-states of Latin America
: pan-arabism, pan-africanism, pan-americanism
and pan-asianism.
The first period of the Third-World movement,
that of the "first Bandung Era", was led by
the Egyptian, Indonesian and Indian heads
of states : Nasser, Sukarno and Nehru.
They were followed in the 1960s and 1970s
by a second generation of Third-Worldist governments
that emphasized on a more radical and revolutionary
socialist vision, personified by the figure
of Che Guevara.
Finally at the end of the Cold War in the
late 1980s, Third Worldism began to enter
into a period of decline.Several leaders have
been associated with the Third-Worldism movement.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Carlos Andrés Pérez
Jawaharlal Nehru
Ho Chi Minh
Kwame Nkrumah
Josip Broz Tito
Houari Boumediene
Julius Nyerere
Salvador Allende
Robert Mugabe
Che Guevara
Patrice Lumumba
Michael Manley
Sukarno
Muammar Gaddafi
Amilcar Cabral
Thomas Sankara
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Theorists ==
Frantz Fanon
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See also ==
Third World Socialism
Non-Aligned Movement
Maoism (Third Worldism)
Three Worlds Theory
