{"product_id":"the-poorer-nations-a-possible-history-of-the-global-south-9781781681589","title":"The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With \u003ci\u003eThe Poorer Nations\u003c\/i\u003e, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSince the '70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival - in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Just as \u003ci\u003eThe Darker Nations\u003c\/i\u003e asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, \u003ci\u003eThe Poorer Nations\u003c\/i\u003e sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad \"has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today's global situation and standoff.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Poorer Nations\u003c\/i\u003e looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Vijay Prashad\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/03\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.9lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781681589","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175704256649,"sku":"9781781681589","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8b11da39-f6dc-4b81-b23b-059fb13bb760.jpg?v=1768892599","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-poorer-nations-a-possible-history-of-the-global-south-9781781681589","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}