Editing First World (section)

===International relations===
Until the recent past, little attention was paid to the interests of Third World countries.<ref name=darby>{{cite book |title=At the Edge of International Relations: Postcolonialism, Gender, and Dependency |last=Darby |first=Phillip |year=2000 |publisher=Continuum International Publishing Group |isbn=0-8264-4719-8 |page=33 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IG3PcfCGfQsC&q=international+relations+%22first+world%22+-War&pg=PA33}}</ref> This is because most international relations scholars have come from the industrialized, First World nations.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hinds |first1=Lynn Boyd |last2=Windt |first2=Theodore |title=The Cold War as Rhetoric: The Beginnings, 1945–1950 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Bi9nAAAAMAAJ|year=1991 |publisher=Praeger Publishers |location=New York |isbn=0-275-93578-7 |page=129}}</ref> As more countries have continued to become more developed, the interests of the world have slowly started to shift.<ref name=darby/> However, First World nations still have many more universities, professors, journals, and conferences, which has made it very difficult for Third World countries to gain legitimacy and respect with their new ideas and methods of looking at the world.<ref name=darby/>