Synthesis of Traditional and Modern in the Evolution of Third World Societies

ISBN-13: 9780313281440 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 192 str.

N. A. Simoniia; Nodari A. Simonia

Opis

In Soviet literature, this theoretical study of the evolution of Third World countries represents one of the first efforts to deviate from dogmatic Stalinist methodology in analyzing Eastern and Western societies. Nodari Simonia compares two Western models of capitalist development and describes a third model in the developing countries when analyzing the processes of socio-economic and state-political development of countries in Asia and North Africa. Simonia also provides case studies of the third model - of parliamentary authoritarianism in India and Malaysia; of controlled democracy in Indonesia, Pakistan and Egypt; and absolutist regimes in Saudi Arabia and Iran under the Shah. This synthesis by a senior Soviet scholar should provoke considerable interest among academics and professionals engaged in Soviet, political theory and social and economic development studies.