Political Economy of Underdevelopment in the Global South

Justin van der Merwe is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Military Studies, Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.Nicole Dodd is Chair at the School for Human and Organisational Development, Faculty of Military Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa.

• 1. Chapter 1 The roots of dispossession.- 2. Chapter 2 Different schools, same problems: Development theory in the 20th Century.- 3. Chapter 3 From neoliberalism to post-development: development theory’s decline and redefinition.- 4. Chapter 4 Marx, Gramsci, and power networks.- 5. Chapter 5 Uneven development and capital accumulation: The government-business-media complex.- 6. Chapter 6 The government-business-media complex and global chains of dispossession.- 7. Chapter 7 Inputs and outcomes: Debunking aid, trade, and investment as drivers of development.- 8. Chapter 8 The Status of development, aid, trade and investment in the global South.- 9. Chapter 9 Modelling development in the global South.- 10. Chapter 10 Reversing dispossession