This volume assembles a leading team of experts to take stock of the development trajectories of an internationally representative array of Third World states in the era of neoliberal globalization. The core focus is on current political economic conditions of the Third World as these have been impacted upon by neoliberal globalization as well as some forecast as to what, should current trends persist, the future portends. The book also investigates state strategies that involve resistance to neoliberal globalization and their potential positive outcomes for those resisting populations. This book moves beyond region/area based collections and places critical analysis, from a variety of intellectual perspectives, on the condition of as much of the Third World as is possible under a single cover.