Beyond the great divide: development studies after the Cold War

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The books 'Challenging the Orthodoxies' edited by Richard M. Auty and John Toye, 'The Costs of Economic Growth' by E.J. Mishan, 'The Economic Theory of Growth and Development' by David Z. Rich, 'Development Strategies in Africa: Current Economic, Sociopolitical and Institutional Trends and Issues' and 'Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa' edited by Aguibou Yansane are about transition in development studies after the Cold War. All five books assume that a new approach to development is required or offered after the Cold War period. The issues raised and variables identified in the books show both opportunities and obstacles for progress.

Economic development, Portrayals, Criticism and interpretation, Challenging the Orthodoxies (Book), The Costs of Economic Growth (Book), The Economic Theory of Growth and Development (Book), Development Strategies in Africa: Current Economic, Sociopolitical and Institutional Trends and Issues (Book), Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa (Book), Auty, Richard M., Toye, John, Mishan, E.J., Rich, David Z., Yansane, Aguibou

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Revolutionary attempts in late Cold War settings: Nicaragua in the 1980s

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The late Cold War provided the general settings for the development of the Nicaraguan revolution and its electoral defeat. As the 1980s went on domestic factors such as Frente Sandinista de Liberacion Nacional's (FSLN's) government policies or people's reactions to counterrevolutionary actions became imprisoned in East-West dynamics, not in the sense that domestic decision or ingredient was submitted by both superpowers to a Cold War reading.

Nicaragua, Military aspects, Cold War, 1945-1991, Nicaraguan foreign relations

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Eighteenth annual meeting of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. Denver, Colorado, October 19-21, 2000

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A description is presented of events at the eighteenth annual meeting in Denver, CO, of the Association of Third World Studies, Inc. The event consisted of 30 round tables and panels.

Conferences, meetings and seminars, Developing countries, Association of Third World Studies

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