Development as a Concept: The Problem

“some nations, including the United States, may be retreating into a fortress like nationalism…”

- Robert Kaplan, “Ends of the Earth” argument

Development as a Concept: The Problem

(Kaplan’s view) Certain countries are separating and being

separated from the world economy All of Africa except Egypt Cambodia Indian sub-continent South East Asia Parts of Central/South America and the Balkans will

follow

Development as a Concept: The Problem

(Kaplan’s view) Economic and social development is “generally

cruel, painful, violent, and uneven…”

Development as a Concept: The Problem

“The industrialized countries, which accounted for 40 percent of the world's population after World War II, now account for only 20 percent, though they earn 85 percent of the world's income. In the coming decades, the industrialized world is expected to make up only 12 to 15 percent of the planetary population, as 90 to 95 percent of all births take place in the poorest countries...I [see] around the world-poverty, the collapse of cities, porous borders, cultural and racial strife, growing economic disparities, weakening nation-states--We are not in control...”

How Did We Get to this Point?

Historical Structures Overseas colonial structures, land-based colonialism,

post-colonial society Problem of Defining Development and

Modernization Theory Colonial Underdevelopment Argument

Overseas Colonial Structures, Values, and Post-Colonial Society (1500-1950)

“De Jure” colonialism legal and internationally recognized formal control of

government structures when trade, economic and governmental sectors of a society are formally or legally controlled by another country

“De Jure” overseas colonialism (Mercantilism) creation of external trade patterns and government

expenditures directed toward the development of an export economy

Colonial Structures, Values, and Post-Colonial Society (1500-1950)

“Old Colonialism” vs. “New Colonialism” Early colonial development focused on infrastructure

to support export and import trade Human resource development was neglected ideology of Free trade that masked a reality which

developed markets for mother country goods and provided raw materials for industrial production

The Colonial Prefect

Named the district officer, magistrate, landrost, district commissioner, the commandant, the collector

By contrast, administration was Functional in Spanish Latin America, Philippines, and in some Neo-Colonial systems—no prefect

Government expenditure was limited to the military and police

Land Based Colonialism

Do the terms colonialism and underdevelopment work for Eastern Europe, the CIS, Central Asia and the Caucasus?

Administrative structures were similar to those of overseas colonialism

These are often labeled “Transitional States”

Land Based Colonialism

Janine Wedel, in Collision and Collusion, raises two questions:

Are transitional states “developmental?” Are they transitional?

What does she mean?

De Facto Colonialism

No formal legal ties but in practice power relationships between colonial powers and puppet regimes

Thailand, Ethiopia, Persia, Nepal, the Arabian Peninsula, and Afghanistan, much of Latin America after the 1850s

Parallel between formal colonial systems and informal influence

The End of Empire

Nationalism developed in the 1930s and 1940s throughout much of the colonial world including much of central and Eastern Europe. It had four variations

Neo-Nationalism in Latin America

Impacts of the functions of government Territorial Governors appointed by the President The importance of Military control in regions -Spanish

Military Governors called Presidencies Patronage

Legalistic basis of governance in principle Clientalist, class or mass based appeal, charisma Community level political culture: “localismo” inward

looking villages and communities

Further Reading on Latin America

Kenneth J. Andrien, The Kingdom of Quito: The State and Regional Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Peter S. Cleaves, Bureaucratic Politics and Administration in Chile

(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974). Keith Griffin, Underdevelopment in Spanish America: An Interpretation

(London: Geoge Allen, 1969) Jack Hopkins, (ed.) Latin America: Perspectives on a Region (New York:

Holmes and Meier, 1987). Howard J. Wiarda, Politics and social change in Latin America : still a

distinct tradition? (Boulder : Westview Press, 1992).

Socialism and Fascism

Some have used the term “Totalitarianism” Legacy of Imperial and Socialist Land Based

Empires (Russia, Austria and Turkey) Multi-ethnicity and land based expansion Dominant Nationalism Absence of Renaissance Revolutionary Transformation and Collapse in the

20th Century Primacy of the Party under “Socialism” Prefectoral Model of local state: Party Authority

Keynesianism as Economic Principle

Government had a role in the management of the economy

KEY: Faith in the State Physical development (roads and dams) and

Economic Growth Physical and Mental Change or Social Development Human Resource Development vs. Social and

Economic Change Proposed a Mixed Economy—public and private

John Maynard Keynes, 1883-1946

British Economist who worked several years in the British India Office

John Rapley: “Keynes had no problem with the market economy. He liked the machine but judged it to be in need of improvement if it was to operate well.”

His goal was to influence the market and not replace it Influenced the U.S. New Deal and the thinking of the Labour

Party in England He had an important influence on the social democratic parties

in Western Europe His ideas suggested that European mixed economies could be

replicated in LDCs

From Middle Class Nationalism to Mass Movements

World War II led to the collapse of over seas empires

begins Japanese imperialism and Asian nationalism The Atlantic Treaty and self-determinism Two patterns: Gandhi and non-violence and Sukarno,

Ho Chi Minh and violent resistance or revolution implication was that economic development would

follow Between 1945 and 1965 more than one hundred new

states came into existence

The “Development Era” 1948-2001

1. In the 1940s and 1950s there was a rhetoric of Nationalism through out the World

2. Political Change (Nationalism in the Middle East, and Latin America) and Independence (Caribbean, Africa, and Asia (1960s-1970s)

Transformation in Eastern Europe and the CIS (1980s)

Quote of the Day

Okot p’Bitek—Uganda novelist

“Foreign ‘Experts’ and Peace Corps swarm the Country Like white Ants.” (1966)

Japan and the History of Development (Toland, The Rising Sun)

What was the Pre-War Japanese Government view of Colonialism in Asia?

Why is Japan Important in the development of nationalism in Africa and Asia?

For Further Reading: Herbert P. Bix, Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan (New York: Harper Collins, 2000).

Discussion

Paul Theroux, “Tarzan is an Expatriate”

How does the p’Bitek quote relate to the Theroux article?

What is the significance of the 1966 article by Paul Theroux in the year 2001?

Reference

Paul Theroux: Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003).

Colonial Values

George Orwell, “Shooting the Elephant”

1. What is the issue here?

2. Should Orwell have shot the Elephant?

3. What does the Orwell story tell us about development?

AUTHOR OF THE DAY

Kathleen Staudt

Kathleen Staudt: Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines (1966-1968)

Is there a grass-roots perspective?

Why or Why not?

AUTHOR’S ISSUES

John Rapley

Jennifer Brinkerhoff

Pressman and Wildavsky