Fair warning: while not steeped in jargon or abstract theorizing, this historical account is nonetheless dense reading in that it frequently jumps between many levels of analysis (from sweeping macro summaries to micro details, like the personal interactions behind negotiations) and back-and-forth in time. This book is the sequel, which continues the Global South perspectives into the Neoliberal era. decolonization and the Third World Project). His magnum opus is The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World, which breaks from the Global North’s Cold War framing of the post-WWII world to consider Global South perspectives (i.e. Over the past 6 years, Vijay Prashad tops my list of teachers. So, you’ve read Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism? Now consider the Global South perspectives… In his foreword to the book, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Boutros Boutros-Ghali writes that Prashad “has helped open the vista on complex events that preceded today’s global situation and standoff.” The Poorer Nations looks to the future while revising our sense of the past. Just as The Darker Nations asserted that the Third World was a project, not a place, The Poorer Nations sees the Global South as a term that properly refers not to geographical space but to a concatenation of protests against neoliberalism. Prashad analyzes the failures of neoliberalism, as well as the rise of the BRICS countries, the World Social Forum, issuebased movements like Via Campesina, the Latin American revolutionary revival-in short, efforts to create alternatives to the neoliberal project advanced militarily by the US and its allies and economically by the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, and other instruments of the powerful. Since the ’70s, the countries of the Global South have struggled to build political movements.

With The Poorer Nations, Prashad takes up the story where he left off. In The Darker Nations, Vijay Prashad provided an intellectual history of the Third World and traced the rise and fall of the Non-Aligned Movement.

The darker nations by vijay prashad