African and Arab States and the Call For a New International Economic Order

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 14-19
Author(s):  
Omari H. Kokole
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Third World ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
International Diplomacy ◽  
The Third World

An Arab leadership within the Third World has been emerging since 1973. Since that year, major diplomatic initiatives on a wide range of issues relevant to the third World have in fact originated from the Arabs. Countries of the Third World are basically producers of raw materials and other primary commodities. The whole struggle for a New International Economic Order (NIEO) has to some extent been led by the Arabs. Some Third World causes have been championed by some Arab countries, and have been pushed by them into the main arenas of international diplomacy. Algeria virtually initiated the raw materials debate at the United Nations in 1974. This was followed by the special session of the General Assembly in 1975. The 1970s witnessed the beginning of a serious consideration of the issue of restructuring the world economy.

New International Economic Order and Strategy for the Use of Financial Surpluses of Developing Countries

1979 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 477-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samir Amin
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
The West ◽  
Factor Endowments ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

In this brief paper, the author shows how the Third World demand for a New International Economic Order (in other words, a more sensible and equitable revision of the existing international division of labour) is consistent, not only within itself, but also with the principle professed by the West itself (viz. that the purpose of division of labour is to make the best use of factor endowments to ensure maximum profitability and common good). In rejecting the demand, the West is repudiating its own conventional wisdom. Aware that implicit in the demand for an international redivision of labour is a demand for international redivision of political power (to which the West, long used to a position of dominance, is not likely to agree willingly), the author suggests a strategy for the Third World to wage its struggle, severally and collectively, on both the political and the economic planes.

International Relations: General: G.H. Jansen: Militant Islam. Pan Books, London. 1979, 224 p., £1.25.

1981 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-445
Author(s):  
M. S. Agwani ◽  
P. R. Chari ◽  
A. N. Abhyankar
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
New York ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
Economic Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
Hoover Institution ◽  
The Third World ◽  
First World

Roger D. Speed : Strategic Deterrence in the 1980's. Hoover Institution Press, Stanford, California, 1979, 174 p., $7.95. Karl Brunner, Ed.: The First World and the Third World: Essays on the New International Economic Order. University of Rochester, New York, 1978, 270p., $9.95.

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