North And South Relations Analysis

The North and South is a term generally used not only for political discourse but also to paint a picture of the relationship between the wealthy and industrialized nations and the poor and less industrialized ones often referred to as developing nations or Third World Countries. This includes certain countries in Asia, Latin America, and Africa etc. This essay is aimed at summarizing with a critical analyses and discourse of North-South relation as written in chapter 7 of Joshua S. Goldstein and Jon C. Pevehouse’s book ‘International Relations.’ SUMMARY
In this chapter, the authors start by giving a vivid distinction between the North and the North. According to them, the global south represents the poor regions often interchangeably referred …show more content…
However, another key issue that has raised much concern is malnutrition which necessitated the adoption of a goal to reduce hunger by half in 2015 at the World Food Summit in 1996. Despite these efforts, China, according to UNICEF as stated in the chapter, has made a significant progress in tackling child malnutrition, while South Asia was at a slow pace and Africa had been static. In the chapter, the author went further to explain that the displacement of peasant farming from subsistent farming is one of the possible reasons responsible for demographic transition. This implies the mass movement of people from the rural to the urban areas also known as urbanization. Due to shortcomings and inadequacies of these nations, this has caused several individuals to migrate to the richer nations. This migration issues in recent times constitute one of the biggest political issues affecting the relationship between the North and South. Millions of people migrate to the richer nations in search of a better livelihood and most times move In illegally thereby necessitating certain stringent measures by the richer nations in order to limit the rate at