International Development: Third World Country – Somalia, Outline Example

Thesis

Given the emphasis of colonialism and neocolonialism on the extraction of national resources, colonial and neocolonial legacies in Somalia were reflected in the country’s subsequent inability to break structural dependencies on the former colonial states and to promote independent economic development.

1. Colonialism and neocolonialism in Africa: the case of Somalia.
   1. Specific features of colonialism and neocolonialism in Africa.
   2. The different patterns of French and British colonialism.
   3. Looking back into the colonial history of Somalia.
2. Somalia and economic development
   1. Macroeconomic analysis
   2. Somalia: a doomed economy.

• The emerging links between colonialism, neocolonialism, and economy.
  1. The impact of colonialism on trade patterns in Somalia.
  2. The idea of economic progress: neocolonialism – myth or reality?

Works Cited

Athow, B. & Blanton, R.G. “Colonial Style and Colonial Legacies: Trade Patterns in British and French Africa.” Journal of Third World Studies, vol. 19, no. 2 (2002): pp. 219-241.

Blanchard, W.H. Neocolonialism American Style: 1960-2000. Greenwood Publishing Group, 1996.

ILO. Generating Employment and Incomes in Somalia. International Labor Organization, 1989.

Vali, J. “Somalia: Survival In a Doomed Economy.” International Labor Review, vol. 127, 802 6 (1988): pp. 783-812.