The United Nations and its democratization became the proxi­mate goals of NAM, which had therefore abjured any attempt to over­throw, or even jujitsu, both superpowers.

The president could rule by fiat, a structure that welcomed a coup d' etat because this alone could change the reins of gov­ernment in a society that had been substantially depoliticized.

The architects of the self-management schemes had good ideas, but they were not the ones to execute and oversee the self-management (autoges­tion) project.

To break the polity into factions would obviate the idea that the freedom struggle had united the people with one interest, to create a nation against imperialism.

Boumedienne had a vision of a "solicitous" state that tended to the needs of a respectful and quiescent population.

Rather than modernization, we have "primitive accumulation" for a small circle of the ruler's family members.

they had to be deposed by an alternative ruler or else a constitutional movement from below that traduced the posture of the Pentagon's modernization attempts.

The two major companies, U.S.­ based Standard oil and British-based Mexican Eagle, were chary about the nationalist noises from Mexico City.

By making alliances with the old social classes and adopting the colonial bureaucratic structure, the new nations essentially vitiated the Third World agenda.

challenged the new states to abjure the divisive techniques of colonial administrators as well as transform cultural differences from a liability to an asset