Terms like “Third World” and “developing nations” have long fallen out of fashion. It’s time we clearly define what the Global South truly entails, says this Wilson Center Global Fellow.
, and suffer lower life expectancy and harsher living conditions than countries in the Global North - that is, richer nations that are located mostly in North America and Europe, with some additions in Oceania and elsewhere.The term Global South appears to have been first used in 1969 by political activist Carl Oglesby. Writing in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal, Oglesby argued that the war in Vietnam was the culmination of a history of northern “dominance over the global south”.
Until then, the more common term for developing nations - countries that had yet to industrialise fully - was “Third World”. Sociologist Peter Worsley’s 1964 book The Third World: A Vital New Force In International Affairs further popularised the term. The book also made note of the Third World forming the backbone of the Non-Aligned Movement, which had been founded just three years earlier as a riposte to bipolar Cold War alignment.
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