If you'd like to print out this page, click the Print button above. Alternatively, you may click the printer icon on your browser's toolbar, or choose File>Print from the menu.     Colonialism's Legacies The messy afterlife of colonialism. (Global Insights). Shashi Tharoor. Global Governance Jan-March 2002 v8 i1 p1(5) 1. To what degree is colonialism "passe" as a current explanation for woes in the Third World? 2. What "direct results" of colonialism are still important today? 3. What are some of the causes of secessionism? 4. How has the economic legacy of colonialism contributed to strife in some Third World countries? 5. According to the author, what is required to pull the Third World out of its problems?