Since the early 1980s, Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs) have
represented the development policy most often pursued in developing
countries. Global Restructuring and Peripheral States addresses SAPs and
their implications for Third World states. Taking a pioneering
geopolitical and economic approach, Ould-Mey examines the restructuring
of international relations through the process of globalization and its
unfolding within peripheral states such as Mauritania.