In The Jakarta Method, Vincent Bevins describes how the war was won.
Third World is no longer a marker of pride - it’s now a pejorative, replaced by the euphemism “developing world.” And the developer, of course, is the United States and its multilateral institutions: the victor of the Cold War. Once feared by the United States, OSPAAAL didn’t make any headlines when it closed. For decades, OSPAAAL produced the iconic Tricontinental Magazine - published in Spanish, English, French, and Arabic for countries around the world. Last summer, a vestige of Third World optimism quietly died when Cuba shut down the Organization in Solidarity with the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America (OSPAAAL), which was born in 1966 and grew out of the landmark Bandung Conference, hosted by Indonesia in 1955. Outside of the bounds of the escalating Cold War, the Third World also believed that through solidarity, it could build this new future together. The countries held their newfound independence proudly, with many emerging from a long history of colonialism and ready to fight for a dream of sovereignty. They weren’t part of the immediate spoils of war for the United States or the Soviet Union.
After World War II, two-thirds of the global population lived in the so-called Third World. IT WASN’T ALWAYS the case that “Third World” had a negative connotation.
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