TOWARDS A PROGRESSIVE AND DEMOCRATIC NEW-WORLD ORDER

Growing social distortions are taking a dramatic turn in the majority of countries in the west, the former eastern bloc and the south. The t hird world has broken apart into a group of emerging countries, which have now entered the industrial age and even developed the capacity to compete in world markets and a group of marginalised and excluded cou ntries. The growing differentiation between these groups of countries has shattered the concept of the third world and ended the common fron t strategies of the Bandung era. There is currently an attempt to impo se an opinion that globalisation is a take it or leave it proposition. Globalisation like everything else can be embodied in many possible a lternatives defined by the balance in the relationships between nation s at any given moment and behind them the specific internal social rel ations of these nations.