{"product_id":"the-poorer-nations-a-possible-history-of-the-global-south","title":"The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn The Darker Nations  Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement. With The Poorer Nations  Prashad takes up the story where he left off.  Since 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 The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project  not a place  The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism.  In 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 todays global situation and standoff. The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44967263240245,"sku":"ByrdShop_1844679527","price":60.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781844679522.jpg?v=1770641899","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-poorer-nations-a-possible-history-of-the-global-south","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}