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Judged from the past, UN does not hold much promise to free the Third World from the clutches of neo-imperialism. Elucidate.

  • UPSC 1996
  • United Nations

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Kwame Nkrumah (Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism, 1965) described a state that is formally sovereign while its economic system, and hence its policy, is directed from outside. Johan Galtung's structural theory of imperialism (1971) added the mechanism: elites in the periphery tied by shared interest to the centre. The statement holds that the UN,…

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  • Why the UN has offered little promise
  • The other side of the record
  • Elucidating the judgement
  • Conclusion
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