nature of those societies themselves, not from any other cause external to them. A challenging view that looks at the underdevelopment and the unstable nature of the Third World countries as a direct result of their economic dependency and peripheral status has also recently emerged. In neither case, however, has there yet been an in-depth analysis of the problem of underdevelopment and subsequent social upheavals in traditional modernizing autocracies, such as Ethiopia and Iran, both of which fell in the 1970s. This book fills this gap in scholarly literature and provides a novel approach to understanding the anatomy of Third World revolutions.
