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Thinking Externally to Solutions for the Underdevelopment of Developing Nations

Thinking Externally to Solutions for the Underdevelopment of Developing Nations. Today’s Topics: “The Third Way” International Politics United Nations: Human Rights. Typology of the Poor. Passive Surviving Political Resisting – SOCIAL MOVEMENTS. Third Way. Interest Groups.

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Thinking Externally to Solutions for the Underdevelopment of Developing Nations

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  1. Thinking Externally to Solutions for the Underdevelopment of Developing Nations Today’s Topics: “The Third Way” International Politics United Nations: Human Rights

  2. Typology of the Poor • Passive • Surviving • Political • Resisting – SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

  3. Third Way

  4. Interest Groups • Focused on: • Single issue • Issues that affect only their members • Issues that affect the general public • E.g.?

  5. Interest group = lobby group = pressure group • Local, national, international • Business, cultural, educational, environmental • Role of media (reading)

  6. Social Movements • Informal networks of groups and individuals with shared values and identity • Local • Grassroots

  7. NGO • Arts (2003) defines non-governmental organizations are non-profit, non-violent, organized group of people who are not established by governments and not seeking government office

  8. NGOs • Think Globally, Act Locally • OR: Think and Act Globally as well as Locally • NGOs are truly a part of the NSMs that reframe local or national issues into global ones

  9. 80s/90s: Explosions of NGOs • Why? • What would Antrobus say? • foreign donors’ direct funding

  10. Yet Another Typology • Compliant • Independent-thinking • Townsend, 2004, 873

  11. Compliant • Comprises of the majority of NGOs • Priority is organizational existence and survival • Arose as a response from the original explosion of the funding • No desire to question development agendas or articulate alternative radical or reformist visions

  12. Independent-Thinking • More concerned with and motivated by making a positive change • Their concern with organizational survival is more a means to an end rather than the end itself • Find ways to carve out new and different visions and spaces

  13. Typology of NGOs: Why? • Critiques the mainstream characteristics and questions whether compliant NGOs are even making a significant long term difference. • Advocates the necessity for more independent-thinking NGOs • Most importantly, critiques NGOs as being simply “an arm of the government”

  14. NGOs & State Sovereignty • Rourke’s Taking Sides

  15. If not the state,if not the market, if not the “Third Way”… then who?

  16. Homework • Pg. 234 – 238: The Role of Media • Check out: • msjeelani.wordpress.com • Projects due: April 16 • absolute deadline • Test: April 21 • Review: Monday

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