The Brandt Commission and the multinationals: planetary perspectives

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction. The Brandt Commission and the Multinationals: Two Planetary Perspectives and the Great Transformation in the 1970s and 1980s -- The rationale and the world stage -- The actors on the world stage: The Brandt commission -- The backstage distorters of development: The multinationals and their planetary vision -- The planetary perspective -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Development vs. Dependency -- Decolonisation, the third world, and UNCTAD -- Development and the concept of underdevelopment -- The liberal development approach -- The neo-Marxist dependence approach -- At the crossroads -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Distorters of Development: The Multinational Corporations -- The agents of change -- Distorters of development -- Resistance -- The UN as an arena -- Flower season -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The G77 and the NIEO: The Contours of a New World Order -- The oil and the power and powerlessness of the poor -- The new international economic order -- The limits to growth and reshaping the international order: Arguments for one world -- The Lomé convention -- The reactions to the NIEO in the north, and the north/south "Dialogue" in Paris -- The ambiguities of the NIEO -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. The Great Transformation of the 1970s and 1980s -- The great transformation between 1965 and 1990 -- Reconceptualisation for a new trade regime -- The reconceptualisation and reorganisation of labour markets -- The dollar and the unfettering of monetary and financial markets -- The trilateral commission and the road to low-intensity democracy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. A Commission against World Poverty -- The origin -- Convincing the Third World -- The commission and its secretariat -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources.

"Set against the backdrop of dramatic world order transformations across the 1970s and 1980s, this book examines the competing planetary perspectives of the Brandt Commission and the multinationals, arguing that the missed opportunities of these decades created a path for contemporary political and economic crises. Featuring a thorough analysis of the decades' trends and a new interview with Shridath Ramphal, the Commission's unofficial vice chair, this is a timely volume for students and researchers of international relations, political science and contemporary history"--

Analyzes the argument behind the NIEO, that decolonialism had become neocolonialism and that the multinational corporations were its agentsThe book provides a tantalising glimpse of how a world shaped by different actors may have panned outThe author has a long track record of important publications at the intersection of History and Political Science