ABSTRACT
The European presence has shifted from overt and direct to more subtle forms. Britain and France, and with them the rest of the European Economic Community, maintain relatively high levels of aid and investment and trade dominance, and they send a sizable number of teachers, businessmen, statesmen, tourists, and technical assistants. As decolonization moves forward, it moves onto less certain ground, where the rights of the new nation are less clearly related to the simple equality of sovereignty and where its ability to replace former metropolitan sources is less sure. It must therefore pave its way with newly established prerogatives. The dependency approach is widely used in analyzing Third World development problems. In the perspective of decolonization, it is important to the stability and peaceful evolution of a polity to keep the process moving, lest frustration and anger build up at the blockage to the natural flow of events.
