第三世界の政治学 I

政治学の可能性の世界

抄録

This study aims at analyzing the political dynamics of developing countries with the concept of the ‘Third World.’ It seems, however, the analytical method for the study of the politics of the Third World has not yet been established.
In the past, studies of Asia, Africa, and Latin America in Japan centered around the nationalist movements, internal politics, and the international relations among countries in these areas, while little effort has been attempted to characterize the politics of the Third World seen as a whole.
One of the features of the political situation of the Third World, as the writer observes it, is instability brought about by various factors—geographical, cultural, historical, ideological—entangled in international settings.
Another feature can be seen in the political systems being transitional. Many instances have taken place in which the revolutionary council established as the consequence of a military coup proceeds toward a socialist state. The writer assumes that such circumstances will lead the military in power to dictatorship.
In his analysis the writer shows a critical attitude to the military who are in most cases apt to reinforce armaments. The writer presumes that this attitude has, at the same time, something in common with his standpoint against the military expansion race between the two nuclear-armed superstates.
The writer presents in this study a new approach to the political analysis of the Third World with an orientation backed up by the definite value judgment which is based on contemporary peace research.