Research and realities politics in the third world / Maria Lourdes Rebullida, editor.

Third world, a definition / Pablo Gonzales Casanova -- Exotic love at your fingertips, intermarriage websites, gendered representation, and the transnational migration of Filipino and Thai women / Leonora Angeles and Sirijit Sunanta -- Politics and the media in Malaysia / Mustafa K. Anuar -- Three years of Indigenous Peoples Rights Act / Nestor T. Castro -- Analyzing NGO discourses / Josephine C. Dionisio -- The Philippine Armed Forces / Ricardo T. Jose -- Globalization, migration, and class struggles / Lisa Law and Kathy Nadeau -- An analysis of the seventeenth general elections in South Korea / Park Young-key -- The true results of the 2004 Philippine presidential elections based on the NAMFREL tally / Roberto Verzola.

This compendium presents selected articles that examine researchable problems in the Third World countries using theoretical perspectives and methodologies in the social science disciplines. The studies reported in the articles are instructive for teaching and learning about hte ways to examine the “realities” of social and political forces, processes, and power relations in the Third World countries through appropriately selected research methodologies.
The journal articles selected for this volume report the research done on phenomena concerning countries of the Third World, not only within its boundaries but in relation to interactions with developed countries. In their postcolonial contexts, Third World states and societies face challenges in their engagement with democracy and development posed by the complex interrelatedness of their history, culture, social, and political institutions, and new technologies for information and communication.

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