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Learning Objectives

Chapter 1

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Discuss the common characteristics of the Third World nations.
• List the causes of underdevelopment in the Third World nations.
• Evaluate the social, economic, and political progress made by the Third World nations.

Chapter 2

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Identify the true meaning of democracy and analyze why some countries that claim to be democracies aren’t truly democratic.
• Describe the process of democratic transition and democratic consolidation using examples.
• Describe how the democracies in some of the emerging nations had authoritarian beginnings.
• Explain why the some theorists and leaders believed that authoritarian rule was necessary for a country’s socio-economic development which democracy alone couldn’t achieve.
• Describe the impact of the Third Wave on the Third World nations’ transition to democracy.
• Identify the international causes and consequences of the Third Wave.
• Describe the factors that determine whether a country can successfully complete its transition into a democracy.
• Compare the performance of democratic governments with the authoritarian regimes.
• Describe the factors that ensure the consolidation of democracy in a country.

Chapter 3

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Discuss the meeting of the church and the state in America.
• List the religions of the nations of Third World.
• Explain how religion, modernity, and secularization work together in the Third World nations.
• Explain the structural and theological bases of the church-state relations.
• Explain the relationship between religious fundamentalism and Islamism in the Third World nations.
• Illustrate how Catholicism progressed in the Third World nations.
• Explain the future of religion and politics in the developing world.
• Explain the relationship between institutionalized religions and democracy.

Chapter 4

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Define ethnicity and list some characteristics of ethnic groups.
• Explain how ethnic and state boundaries have caused tensions within ethnic groups.
• Describe the different types of ethnic and cultural divisions.
• Explain how modernization and higher education intensified the strife between ethnic groups.
• Identify the different levels of interethnic conflict based on the nature and intensity of relations between the ethnic groups.
• Examine some of the resolutions that have been made to settle interethnic conflicts and the alternatives used when negotiations did not work.
• Analyze the reasons why it is difficult to maintain democracy in a multiethnic country.

Chapter 5

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the political and socioeconomic status of Third World women.
• Describe the different roles of women in politics.
• Describe the status of women and the role of modernization, globalization, and regime type in encouraging women to take up challenging roles in society.
• Explain the relationship between democracy and the role of women in society.

Chapter 6

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Examine the distribution of the rural poor in Third World countries.
• Describe the various levels of the rural class system.
• Discuss the role of peasants in Third World politics.
• Explain the need for agrarian reforms in Third World peasantry.
• Analyze the effects of crop pricing on rural poverty.
• Predict what the future holds for the rural poor considering financial aids and development policies.
• Examine the pattern in human migration from rural to urban areas.
• Discuss the trend observed in the urbanization of growing Third World regions.
• Identify the possible political outcomes of a rapid urban growth.
• Explain the various sources of employment available for the urban poor.
• Describe the burden of housing on the urban poor and explain some of the measures taken to reduce this burden.
• Explain how criminal activity is intensified in urban regions with income inequality.
• Compare the various social and political attitudes of the urban poor.
• Explain the various forms of political behavior exhibited by the urban poor using examples.
• Discuss the role of rural and urban poor in the political and economic systems of a democracy.

Chapter 7

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Define revolution and describe its various forms using examples.
• Explain the reasons why revolutions arise with the help of examples.
• Identify the five groups into which people can be categorized based on their support during a revolution.
• Explain why most of the revolutions were fought by peasants and identify which categories of peasants were more prone to revolution.
• Describe the leadership qualities of the various revolutionary leaders from the past.
• Analyze the accomplishments of revolutionary leaders after their coming into power.
• Explain why the age of revolutions is coming to an end.

Chapter 8

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Contrast the two major causes of military interventions in developing countries.
• Compare the characteristics and ideologies of different types of military governments.
• Describe the structure and goals of different types of military regimes.
• Evaluate the relative success of institutional military governments in relation to their goals.
• Describe the factors that contribute to entrenchment or withdrawal of the military from politics.
• Describe the role of the military in prodemocracy uprisings.

Chapter 9

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

• Describe the state’s economic role in command economies, Latin American nations, East Asian countries, and in a neoclassical state.
• Explain the two industrialization strategies used by developing nations.
• Analyze the importance of economic equality and income distribution in the economic growth of a country.
• Discuss the impact of industrialization and rapid economic growth on the environment.
• Identify the role of the United States in addressing the environmental consequences of economic growth and achieving sustainable development.
• Explain how an export-oriented industrial model has helped East Asian economies to promote growth.
• Discuss the positive and negative effects of globalization on the economic development of Third World nations.
• Evaluate how democratic governments have faired in economic development compared to authoritative governments.