![]() Increasingly the term that was being used to replace them was the more neutral-sounding “Global South.”Ĭhart shows the usage over time of ‘Global South,’ Third World,‘ and 'Developing countries’ in English language sources. Meanwhile “developed,” “developing” and “underdeveloped” also faced criticism for holding up Western countries as the ideal, while portraying those outside that club as backwards. ![]() Usage of the term fell rapidly in the 1990s. The fall of the Soviet Union – and with it the end of the so-called Second World – gave a convenient pretext for the term “Third World” to disappear, too. “Third World” became a synonym for banana republics ruled by tinpot dictators – a caricature spread by Western media. Though Worsley’s view of this “Third World” was positive, the term became associated with countries plagued by poverty, squalor and instability. The book also made note of the “Third World” forming the backbone of the Non-Aligned Movement, which had been founded just three years earlier as a riposte to bipolar Cold War alignment. Sociologist Peter Worsley’s 1964 book, “ The Third World: A Vital New Force in International Affairs,” further popularized the term. The term “First World” referred to the advanced capitalist nations the “Second World,” to the socialist nations led by the Soviet Union and the “Third World,” to developing nations, many at the time still under the colonial yoke. That term was coined by Alfred Sauvy in 1952, in an analogy with France’s historical three estates: the nobility, the clergy and the bourgeoisie. Until then, the more common term for developing nations – countries that had yet to industrialize fully – was “ Third World.” ![]() ![]() Writing in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal, Oglesby argued that the war in Vietnam was the culmination of a history of northern “dominance over the global south.”īut it was only after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union – which marked the end of the so-called “Second World” – that the term gained momentum. The term Global South appears to have been first used in 1969 by political activist Carl Oglesby. In general, they are poorer, have higher levels of income inequality and suffer lower life expectancy and harsher living conditions than countries in the “Global North” - that is, richer nations that are located mostly in North America and Europe, with some additions in Oceania and elsewhere. ![]()
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