1. Learning Recap! Rostow’s Model Dependency theory World systems theory
Outline how each of these explains the growing emergence of superpowers

2. Superpower Geographies 2
Superpower Geographies 2. Impacts and influences of Superpowers a) The changes from colonial rule to indirect neo-colonial rule b) Key roles in international decision making, policy and action c) Control of trade d) Superpower influence in the idea of developing a ‘global culture’
Learning Objectives:
Understand how superpower rule has changed from colonial rule to indirect neo-colonial rule
Assess the mechanisms of neo-colonial control – trade, aid and debt

3. Era of decolonialisation
Independence brought about conflict rather than immediate freedom for 3 main reasons
Colonial boarders did not match religious or ethnic boundaries = conflict
Colonies had a government but indigenous people excluded from running them = lack of experience
As colonial powers left, insurgents pushed them out = violence

4. Neo-Colonialism
A form of indirect control over developing countries, most of them former colonies
Direct political control decreased whilst economic control increased
Economic dependence on primary goods
Economic dominance of multinational companies
Impact of foreign aid and foreign debt

5. How were they being indirectly controlled?
Aid
Often given with ‘strings attached’ forcing the developing countries to spend it in particular ways
2) Trade
Low raw material export prices contrast with high prices that developing countries have to pay for manufactured goods
3) Debt
Many developing countries pay huge sums of money to developed countries each year in interest

6. Ghana @ 50: success or failure?
In 1957 gained independence from British Colonial rule
Using table of development indicators for Ghana on p In what ways has Ghana
Made progress?
Fallen behind?
Prepare a report ‘Ghana – 50 years on’. In 750 words, assess whether life in Ghana is improving, and what issues it faces for the future

7. Exam Question
Using examples, assess the view that the relationship between the developed and the developing world is a neo-colonial one’ (15 marks)

8. Plenary
Create a mind map around the key phrase ‘neo-colonialism a bridge between the developed and developing nations’