The Multipolar Moment? Latin America and the Global South

The Third World, for me, was not a spatial marker, the omnibus name of underdeveloped countries of Africa, Asia, and the Americas. It was, rather, the name of a project, cultivated by the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements and its intellectuals from the 19th century into the 1940s.

In the 1970s, the world’s underdeveloped nations launched the idea of South-South cooperation. Following in the spirit of Bandung, they

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Since the Bandung Conference of 1955, China has consistently identified itself with the developing world, calling itself the “world’s largest

Thanks for the good news in the May/June issue (“Of Migrants and Minutemen”) about immigrant labor organizing and Latino-black community

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Latin America formally joined the world of the Afro-Asian gatherings in 1961 to create the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). This was largely through the new Cuba's forceful intervention. When Castro's platoons descended into Havana, it not only inaugurated a new moment for the island nation, but it also built a bridge between Latin America and the newly constituted Third World project.

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