Part 1 : Approaches and global context -- Analytical approaches to the study of politics in the developing world -- Colonialism and post-colonial development -- Institutional perspectives -- The developing world in the global economy -- The developing world in international politics -- Part 2 : Society and state -- Inequality -- Ethnopolitics and nationalism -- Religion -- Women and gender -- Civil society -- People power and alternative politics -- Part 3 : State and society -- Theorizing the state -- From conflict to peacebuilding -- Democratization -- Governance and aid conditionality in a globalizing world -- Part 4 : Policy issues -- Development -- Environment -- Human rights -- Security -- Part 5 : Case studies: experiences compared -- Reconfiguring the political order -- Military in politics versus democratic advance -- Underdevelopment and development -- South-South relations and the changing landscape of international development cooperation -- Appendix 1 : Case study countries: basic indicators -- Appendix 2 : Case study countries: globalization rankings and scores, 2004

1. Developing countries -- Politics and government