Hmm. The Wikipedia article mentions a French essay as the origin of the idea.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. nations either chose or didn’t firmly choose a side, but lumping together all the ones that didn’t choose together is categorisation. The non-aligned movement was there too but it didn’t include the whole third world.
It wasn’t a classification, it was a declaration. It was what side you were on in the Cold War.
Hmm. The Wikipedia article mentions a French essay as the origin of the idea.
I’m not sure what you mean by this. nations either chose or didn’t firmly choose a side, but lumping together all the ones that didn’t choose together is categorisation. The non-aligned movement was there too but it didn’t include the whole third world.