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Uganda is often considered one of the few success stories in Africa. After years of internal strife, the country has returned to relative stability. Its leader, President Yoweri Museveni, enjoys the respect not only of his own people, but also of the international community. But a look behind the scene reveals that there are still severe economic, social and political problems to be solved. (D+C/DÜI)

Vincentas Rolandas Giedraitis savo naujoje knygoje "Naujas šaltasis karas posocialistinėje eroje - daugiapriklausomybės dominavimas Lietuvoje" (2007) holistiniais tyrimo metodais nagrinėja Lietuvos ekonominę, politinę ir karinę priklausomybę nuo kitų valstybių. Autorius teigia, kad Europos Sąjunga, Rusijos Federacija ir Jungtinės Amerikos Valstijos "kovoja" dėl įtakos Lietuvoje. Pavyzdžiui, autorius aprašo priemones, kuriomis Rusija išnaudoja Lietuvos (ir Europos šalių) ekonomikos priklausomybę nuo Rusijos naftos pasiūlos, kad galėtų savo naudai paveikti Lietuvos ekonominę bei politinę padėtį. Kita vertus, autorius aiškina ne vien ekonominius Lietuvos priklausomybės nuo kitų valstybių aspektus, bet ir politologinius bei sociologinius.

ABSTRACT
Drawing on Samir Amin's writings, this article proposes a contemporary form of dependency that manifests in the subordinate integration of developing countries into a financialised global economy. Using insights from the emergent financialisation literature, the article updates two themes in Amin's work: imperialist rent and the role of the peripheral state in perpetuating dependency in the global economy. In contemporary capitalism, imperialist rent is not limited to labour arbitrage but also includes financial arbitrage, and the peripheral state, rather than retreating, now actively manages the financial sphere. The article advances an updated understanding of dependency in the context of financialisation.

Notes the charge that developing nations are dependent on the West for international news, leading to the adoption of Western news values and subsequent cultural imperialism. News dependency is 'neocolonial' in that information flows through 'vertical' channels (from North to South) and within distinct spheres of communication hegemony. These claims are tested with a news flow study of African and Latin American dailies. (Abstract amended)

This article seeks to test certain hypotheses drawn from structural communications theory, hypotheses that tend to support the call for a New World Information Order (NWIO). Structural theorists such as Johan Galtung and NWIO advocates from the Third World have charged that developing nations are dependent upon the West for international news. News dependency, in turn, is said to lead to the adoption of Western news values and subsequent cultural imperialism in the South. Finally, news dependency is said to be neocolonial in the sense that information flows through "vertical" channels (from North to South) and within distinct spheres of communication hegemony. These claims are tested with a news flow study drawn from African and Latin American dailies. Results of the empirical tests show that the Third World is dependent on Western agencies for the bulk of its international news, and that Third World newspapers reflect the news values of Western prestige dailies. Nonaligned newswires, however, are shown to be more resistant to journalistic westernization, as their coverage is markedly different from that of the Western wire services. Finally, news flow patterns do exhibit a pronounced neoimperial character. Agencies from the United States, Great Britain, and France each hold sway over their own regional domains within the Third World.

Discusses contradicting assumptions & solutions accompanying dependency theory in Latin America. Compares the radical solution of delinking to the milder version of dependency, known as import-substituting industrialization, which claims that both rich & poor nations benefit under capitalism, but not necessarily equally. Due to the desirability & consumption of foreign goods, current Latin American governments have adopted a pragmatic policy of encouraging trade liberalization & integration. I. Sharp

The present world economic order is based on domination and inequality. The world is bifurcated into two asymmetrical groups of countries: the North and the South. While the economies of the North are generally strong, industrialized, and self-reliant, those of the South are predominantly weak, disarticulated, unindustrialized, appendage and dependent on the North. Explanations for this reality of inequality and disparity in the levels of development in the world have precipitated scholarly debates, postulations and theoretical formulations. Among such theories is the dependency theory. As a theory of development and underdevelopment studies and an analytical framework within the discipline of international economic relations, the dependency theory discusses the reality of underdevelopment and global economic imbalance in the international system. It rejects underdevelopment as a natural condition of the poor societies of the South, and links underdevelopment to dependence, a situation which history of colonial imperialism has left and which modern imperialism creates in underdeveloped countries. This paper argues that though the dependency theory possesses appreciable explanatory capability for the unfortunate global economic disparity, but it is not without limitations. The paper challenges the methodological and conceptual correctness of the propositions underlying a number of dependency theoretical assumptions. It recommends that looks should be taken beyond the theoretical offers of dependency for a wholesome understanding of failure of development in the third world, and explanation for the present global economic imbalance.