As a result of centuries-old interactive internal and external cultural and economic factors, developing countries suffer from illiteracy, poverty, corruption, oppression, and other ills. These have led and continue to lead to the disruption of the natural flow of socio-political and economic development.

In the developing countries, there is inadequate grasp of politics, which permeates all social relations, and is a way to gain and wield influence with a view to achieve certain goals.

In order for the developing people to be able to achieve progress in nation-building, political...

This study, which focuses on the nuclear- weapons issue in the Near Eastern context, highlights the strategic, military and political nature of Israels nuclear-weapons project. Its position on acquisition of nuclear weapons, though ambiguous in its initial stages in the later part of the 1950s and the 1960s, became increasingly less ambiguous. Strategic, military and political reasons were behind the change in such a position which, in the course of time, developed into a policy. After providing a short account of the views of a few Israeli politicians and analysts on Israels...