Since the end of WWII, there's been an emergence in the Middle East and Africa. How are they emerging?

Question

One of the questions I have in history class is "Discuss how Third-World countries such as Africa and the Middle East have emerged." I know what Third-world countries are, but exactly how have those two areas emerged? Even after reading over my textbook, I still can't seem to find anything explaining how Africa and the Middle East have and are emerging.

Answer 1

Well, first of all, power os not about the western world anymore. Ever since the post-colonial era, the rest of the world attempted to get on the power wagon as well. But unfortunally, some of them became pawns during the cold war, such as Zimbabwe, Angola, or Congo.

They are emerging because we cannot focus on the world anymore without focus on these countries. (prior to that, they don't really matter, but now, all the news is about them)

Answer 2

Start with the concepts "Decolonization" and "Post-Colonialism". Starting in the Middle East after WWII, and Africa end of the 50s - beginning of the 60s.

"A particularly active period of decolonization occurred between 1945 to 1960, beginning with the independence of Pakistan and the Republic of India from Great Britain in 1947 and the First Indochina War."

"Decolonization" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonisation

"The term "Third World" was coined by French demographer Alfred Sauvy in 1952, on the model of the Third Estate, which, according to the Abbé Sieyès, represented everything, but was nothing: "...because at the end this ignored, exploited, scorned Third World like the Third Estate, wants to become something too" (Sauvy). The emergence of this new political entity, in the frame of the Cold War, was complex and painful. Several tentatives were made to organize newly independent states in order to oppose a common front towards both the US's and the USSR's influence on them, with the consequences of the Sino-Soviet split already at works. Thus, the Non-Aligned Movement constituted itself, around the main figures of Nehru, the leader of India, The Indonesian prime minister, Tito the Communist leader of Yugoslavia, and Nasser, head of Egyptwho successfully opposed the French and British imperial powers during the 1956 Suez crisis. After the 1954 Geneva Conference which put an end to the French war against Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, the 1955 Bandung Conference gathered Nasser, Nehru, Tito, Sukarno, the leader of Indonesia, and Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China. In 1960, the UN General Assembly voted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. The next year, the Non-Aligned Movement was officially created in Belgrade (1961), and was followed in 1964 by the creation of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) which tried to promote a New International Economic Order (NIEO). The NIEO was opposed to the 1944 Bretton Woods system, which had benefitted the leading states which had created it, and remained in force until after the 1973 oil crisis."

"Decolonization : The emergence of the Third World (1945-)" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonisation#The_emergence_of_the_Third_World_.281945-.29

See also "Post-colonialism" : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-Colonialism

Answer 3

They are emerging because of conflict. There is a huge demand for oil and also the diamond industry. They have become the focus because they are in the process of changing their political systems to those more closely known throughout the rest of the world. Along with those changes comes the turmoil that change creates.

Answer 4

Emerging as new focus's centre.Activity and money transaction has made the middle east the most lucrative spot.The construction industry speaks of the investments rolling in and people magnetically pulled to these.

Answer 5

Their numbers are a great deal decreased now, only few thousands in Egypt, the youngest member of the community is sixty six years previous! In Libya they are extinct already, in Algeria, i believe it really is as in Egypt, In Tunisia, few thousands, with new generations besides the indisputable fact that, they have Hebrew colleges and Kosher eating places, a really small community, yet nonetheless alive. In Morocco, that is the biggest and maximum thriving in any Arabic us of a, the community in Casablanca is fairly shiny. . . . In Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Bahrain, Iraq . . . etc. only unusual persons left. . . . . Their custom is fairly impressive; they are regular Sephardic Jews, with very classic custom and excellent food! besides the indisputable fact that, contained locally in Egypt as an celebration, there develop into, contained in the golden previous, many Ashkenazi Jews, i.e. from eu descent. . . . there develop into an Ashkenazi synagogue in Cairo too. . . . concerning the tolerance, there develop into united statesand downs by the heritage, as an celebration through the time of WWII, Egypt develop right into a haven for most Jews, besides the indisputable fact that after the advent of Israel in 1948, the international places Jewry develop into in a really undesirable subject that were given worse through the revolution in 1952, the nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956 (The 12 months marked what's regular because the starting up of the 2d exodus), the Arab-Israeli conflict of 1967 marked the proper of the community, only few persons left, and the vast majority left the rustic. . . . The very last Jewish marriage in Egypt got here about in 1984. those days, those who nonetheless in Egypt are previous and fragile, loved dearly by way of their Muslim and Christian neighbours and acquaintances, and usually served through them too. . . . In Egypt there develop into under no circumstances a issue between human beings because of their faith, all are non secular, each from time to time fans, yet very loveable through nature. . . .That issue develop into political fantastically, maximum of Jews from Egypt who stay now in Europe, us of a, or Israel, nonetheless keep great thoughts of Egypt and their acquaintances their. . . i wish that solutions your question. . . .

Answer 6

oil =money= power