Third World nations

Japanese expansion throughout the East Indian islands ia the 1930s and 1940s, then anticolonialism and the emergence of the Third World nations, finally wrested control of the Spice Islands from the Dutch. 

In a parahel move, antidumping duties against these three countries were also assessed for import of sihcon into the European Community. These latter duties are due to expire. The term for antidumping duties in Europe is a period of five years. The impact of antidumping duties is not straightforward, but rather is influenced by factors such as Most Favored Nation Status in the United States and by export of finished products made from materials containing antidumping duties tariff to Third World nations and in the European Community. 

Portland cement is the most widely used constmction material in the world (see Cement), especially in Third World nations, because of its availabiHty, ease of use, and versatiHty. Estimated 1989 worldwide production is almost 1.12 biUion metric tons. The United States represented 71.2 million metric tons, ie, fourth, behind China (207 million metric tons), the former USSR (140 million metric tons), and Japan (82 million metric tons). Spain is tenth with 27 million tons. The top 10 world producers of Portland cement account for just under 43% of the total production. 

As for education and population stabilization, the world only needs to watch and, as requested, discretely help India, which seems to contain all the world s problems in microcosm. India, with its 700 million rural people in 600,000 villages, and its educated class of more than 300 million, is already working, if painfully slowly, to modernize its social and economic systems to raise itself to the level of the most developed nations. Its success could provide a model for all the third-world nations. However, as already mentioned, the so-called developed world needs, itself, to do far, far more to educate and transform itself away from its excessive, me-phenomenon obsession into a we-phenomenon state, providing an example for the underdeveloped world. 

This view of early modern statecraft is not particularly original. Suitably modified, however, it can provide a distinctive optic through which a number of huge development fiascoes in poorer Third World nations and Eastern Europe can be usefully viewed. 

There is no doubt that the speed of analysis and relative operational simplicity of these new screening tests offer many advantages to both FDA, drug manufacturers, clinicians, animal growers and ultimately to the consumer. In addition, third world nations could also benefit from the availability of drug and environmental screening tests for use in a first line screen of contaminants of public health concern. 

In a similar fashion, one can see the extension of the tighter regulations as they apply in the United States, to Japan and Western Europe. Through the EU, they have implemented similar standards for the very same reason in Europe additionally, many of the third world nations have already implemented their own GMP initiatives reemphasizing the growing uniformity in such requirements throughout the world. 

In a changing world, where the traditional East-West conflict has subsided in the face of steadily increased chemical agent proliferation among many Third World nations, the chemical threat appears to be increasing from smaller nations or political splinter groups with little or no sophisticated chemical warfare industrial capability. Hence we must be prepared for chemical agent attack from terrorist elements, and for crude delivery systems... 

Despite the end of the Cold War, the United States still faces a range of serious national security issues. One at the forefront is the issue of the proliferation of biological weapons, and the accelerated development of the capabilities to design and produce biological weapons on the part of many Third World nations.17 The Committee on Armed Services of the U.S. House of Representatives, in their Special Inquiry Into the Chemical and Biological Threat, concluded that despite the demise of the Soviet Union, with its sizable chemical and biological arsenal, the threat has increased in terms of widespread proliferation, technological diversity, and the probability of use.1... 

The reasons why Iraq did not use these weapons during the Persian Gulf War, the subject of much speculation, will probably never be known with certainty. However, this Iraqi threat highlighted the problems posed by the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction among Third World nations and the potential threat posed to U.S. forces as well as other nations. On 3 April 1991, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 687, which required that... 

William Henry Lantz, Sef-determination The Parallax Views of Western, Socialist and Third World Nations, LL.M. Thesis on file in George Washington University (1983). 

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