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Globalization poses a formidable dilemma for the third-world state. While there are compelling external pressures to liberalize domestic economies, market-oriented reforms threaten the economic well-being of various societal groups. Popular resistance to these reforms has been strong throughout the developing world. This volume examines the political strategies employed by third world governments to maintain programs in the face of domestic opposition.

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SAMIR AMIN Professor and Director of the Third World Forum in Senegal CHRISTINE B. N. CHIN Assistant Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University MANOCHEHR DORRAJ Associate Professor of Political Science, Texas Christian University SUSAN ECKSTEIN Professor of Sociology, Boston University RICHARD HARRIS Professor of Global Studies, California State University JULIUS O. IHONVBERE Professor of Government, University of Texas XIAOBO LU Assistant Professor of Political Science, Barnard College, Columbia University JAMES H. MITTLEMAN Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington, DC MUSTAPHA K. PASHA Associate Professor of International Relations, School of International Service, American University W. OFUATEY-KODJOE Professor of Political Science, Queens College and the Graduate Centre of the City University of New York JOHN WEEKS Professor of Development Economics and Director of the Centre for Development Policy and Research, School of Oriental and African Studies BEHZAD YAGHMAIN Associate Professor of Economics, Ramapo College, New Jersey

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