Global Restructuring and Peripheral States: The Carrot and the Stick in Mauritania
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Overview
Since the early 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) have represented the development policy most often pursued in developing countries. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States addresses SAPs and their implications for Third World states. Taking a pioneering geopolitical and economic approach, Ould-Mey examines the restructuring of international relations through the process of globalization and its unfolding within peripheral states such as Mauritania.
Synopsis
Since the early 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) have represented the development policy most often pursued in developing countries. "Global Restructuring and Peripheral States" addresses SAPs and their implications for Third World states. Taking a pioneering geopolitical and economic approach, Ould-Mey examines the restructuring of international relations through the process of globalization and its unfolding within peripheral states such as Mauritania.
Author Biography: Mohameden Ould-Mey is assistant professor of geography at Francis Marion University.
Editorials
Africa Today
The author provides a percise examination of external debt, the mechanism of its genesis and management, and the requirements of the economic policy that is derived from that debt.— Samir Amin, Third World Form