First Published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Introduction 1. A world always divided: at the sources of contemporary spatial terminology 2. 'Third World': origins and meanings 3. 'Third World': glory and infamy 4. Newcomers and challengers: 'developing countries' and the 'North-South' dichotomy 5. The future of the North-South divide and its terminology

Associate Professor at the Institute of Regional and Global Studies, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies at the University of Warsaw, Poland. His research interests focus on human geography and international relations, with a special emphasis on political geography, regional geography and North-South relations.