Books by John Girling

Investigates the relationship between America and the Third World, centring on three main themes: the nature of American involvement in the Third World; the challenge posed by the rival Super-Power; and, the changes both in US-Soviet relations (from containment to detente) and in the Third World.

Comprises an evaluation of Marxist, Gramscian and pluralist theories of social development; the application of these theories, chiefly to Third World countries: hence consideration of the problems of 'specificity', general theory and social change.

This book is an important and very relevant study of corruption which is ever present in political life. Girling demonstrates that corruption does not disappear as countries develop and modernize, but rather that corruption takes on new forms.